cheap skate

A stingy person, as in He's a real cheap skate when it comes to tipping. This idiom combines cheap (for "penurious") with the slang usage of skate for a contemptible or low individual. It has largely replaced the earlier cheap John. [Slang; late 1800s]

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Sjurd	-	Norwegian
Attoe	['ætəu]
Su-Jin	soo-jeen	Korean
Chukwudi	-	Western African, Igbo
Ellis (2)	EL-is	Welsh
Marcelino	mahr-the-LEE-no (Spanish), mahr-se-LEE-no (Latin American Spanish)	Spanish, Portuguese