v. to cut; to carve; to dig out; adj. stingy
Example Sentences
他虽然在个人日常衣食住行开销上对自己苛刻得甚至有些抠门，但在向偏远乡村学校捐建希望图书室时却格外大方慷慨。
tā suī rán zài gè rén rì cháng yī shí zhù xíng kāi xiāo shàng duì zì jǐ kē kè dé shèn zhì yǒu xiē kōu mén, dàn zài xiàng piān yuǎn xiāng cūn xué xiào juān jiàn xī wàng tú shū shì shí què gé wài dà fāng kāng kǎi.
Although he was very strict with himself and even stingy about his daily expenses for food, clothing, housing and transportation, he was particularly generous when he donated money to build a Hope Library in a remote rural school.
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Related Words & Compounds
(coll.) stingy
to be fastidious about phrasing, diction, or choice of words
to scratch one's foot / (fig.) to be stingy / (slang) (of a celebrity) to twiddle one's thumbs (i.e. not release any new material etc)
(image processing) to extract a foreground object from its background; image matting
(coll.) stingy; miserly
erhua form of 摳門|抠门[kou1 men2]
erhua variant of 摳字眼|抠字眼[kou1 zi4 yan3]
see 摳搜|抠搜[kou1 sou5]
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