nipcheese vs penny-wise

nipcheese

adj
  • Synonym of miserly. 

noun
  • Synonym of purser. 

  • Synonym of miser. 

penny-wise

adj
  • Thrifty in regards to small amounts of money. 

How often have the words nipcheese and penny-wise occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )