Tacana in english
Tacana
pronunciation: tɑkɑnə part of speech: noun
pronunciation: tɑkɑnə part of speech: noun
In gestures
tacaño = cheap ; stingy ; parsimonious ; tight-fisted ; miser ; scrooge ; skinflint ; penny-pinching ; tightwad ; cheapskate ; piker ; penny pincher ; mingy .
Example: The unregistered shareware version displays a message to anyone accessing the server that the owner is too cheap to pay the shareware fee.Example: All subjects completed a four-page questionnaire in which they rated Americans on six bipolar adjective dimensions: friendly/unfriendly, polite/impolite, industrious/lazy, religious/anti-religious, generous/stingy, and patriotic/not patriotic.Example: He joked that he had to be 'very parsimonious, indeed very Scottish,' in his management of IFLA finances = He joked that he had to be 'very parsimonious, indeed very Scottish,' in his management of IFLA finances.Example: The money for modernizing Indian towns will have to come out of the pockets of leading merchants, men stereotyped as tight-fisted scrooges.Example: If one were to think of an analogue outside the library situation, one would conjure up the image of a miser cackling with delight as he counts and recounts his beloved coins.Example: The money for modernizing Indian towns will have to come out of the pockets of leading merchants, men stereotyped as tight-fisted scrooges.Example: He is been described as a penny-pinching skinflint tightwad who would sooner die than part with a dollar.Example: He is been described as a penny-pinching skinflint tightwad who would sooner die than part with a dollar.Example: He is been described as a penny-pinching skinflint tightwad who would sooner die than part with a dollar.Example: Most of these cheapskates will not come right out and tell you that they don't want to pay anything for your software.Example: For pikers like me it's a tremendous comfort to know that at this moment, counting what I owe, I have more money than Donald Trump.Example: However I am a 'penny pincher' and always on the look out for ways I can save myself a few dollars.Example: I bought a few random issues just because I felt bad leaving such a mingy store empty handed, but I definitely will not be going back.more:
» ser tacaño = be a tight-ass/arse .
Example: Don't be such a tight-ass and pay the full price, it's cheap anyway.