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adjective

Thrifty adj. (compar. thriftier; superl. thriftiest)

Given to, or evincing, thrift; characterized by economy and good menegement of property; sparing; frugal. "Her chaffer was so thrifty and so new." "I am glad he hath so much youth and vigor left, of which he hath not been thrifty."

Thriving by industry and frugality; prosperous in the acquisition of worldly goods; increasing in wealth; as, a thrifty farmer or mechanic.

Growing rapidly or vigorously; thriving; as, a thrifty plant or colt.

Secured by thrift; well husbanded. (R.) "I have five hundred crowns, The thrifty hire I saved under your father."

Well appearing; looking or being in good condition; becoming. (Obs.) "I sit at home, I have no thrifty cloth."

Synonyms: Frugal; sparing; economical; saving; careful.

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... Though thrifty enough in most matters, the German had become a liberal contributor to the High School athletic fund, to the great dismay of his good wife, who feared that his new outdoor fads would yet land ...

— The High School Left End - Dick & Co. Grilling on the Football Gridiron • H. Irving Hancock

... astern, as the steamer gains on the whale. Even a steamer, however, has been charged, stove, and sunk. And a fighting humpback in the Gulf of St Lawrence is no easy game to tackle with a hand-lance in a pram. Norwegians are thrifty folk, and bomb harpooning is expensive. So when the whale and steamer meet, at the end of the chase, a tiny pram is launched with two men rowing and a third standing up in the stern to wield the fifteen-foot ...

— All Afloat - A Chronicle of Craft and Waterways • William Wood

... Johannesburg, as in Pretoria, the last ten years have seen the development of special locations where the lowest class of Dutch people reside. For the most part these are the families of landless Boers. Until recent years they lived as squatters on the farms of their more thrifty compatriots. Their life then was one of progressive degradation. Under the Kruger policy hundreds of such families were encouraged to settle in the neighbourhood of the towns. Plots of ground were given them, and there they built rough ...

— With the Guards' Brigade from Bloemfontein to Koomati Poort and Back • Edward P. Lowry

... across the empty, close-gleaned corn-field, across the railway track, and, plunging into the orchard on the other side, where here and there among the trees the torrents of apples were being already caught in boxes by the thrifty husbandman, began to breast the hill intersected ...

— October Vagabonds • Richard Le Gallienne

... were getting riches from the cleared fields, instead of from the backs of beavers in the sunless forests; who were raising sheep and multiplying cattle, instead of hunting deer and buffaloes; who were beginning to trade with European ports not as mere voyageurs but as thrifty merchants; who were vitally concerned about their own salvation first, and then interested in the fate of the savage; and who, above all, were learning in town meetings to govern themselves, instead of having all their ...

— The French in the Heart of America • John Finley

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