penurious vs tight-fisted

penurious

adj
  • Impoverished; wanting for money. 

  • Miserly; excessively cheap. 

  • Not bountiful; thin; scant. 

tight-fisted

adj
  • reluctant to spend money; miserly or stingy 

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