Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Skinflint \Skin"flint`\, n. [Skin + flint.]
   A penurious person; a miser; a niggard. --Sir W. Scott.

Source : WordNet®

skinflint
     n : a selfish person who is unwilling to give or spend [syn: {niggard},
          {scrooge}, {churl}]