penny-wise vs penurious

penny-wise

adj
  • Thrifty in regards to small amounts of money. 

penurious

adj
  • Impoverished; wanting for money. 

  • Miserly; excessively cheap. 

  • Not bountiful; thin; scant. 

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