Cheapskate. Okay. Let's take a look at the note. If we say someone is a cheapskate,

he is thought to be a stingy person that does not like to spend money. Okay. Good.

Let's continue. The origin of cheapskate does not have anything to do with ice

skates or rollerskates or any type of skates and has nothing to do with them

being on sale or being cheap or anything like that. The skate part of cheapskate

refers to an old meaning of skate that is no longer in use. Skate used to mean

an unkind, mean or contemptible person . It seems unclear why skate used to have

this meaning, but the best guess is it seems that it may have been a variant of

the Scottish word skite or skeet which did refer to a

person that was considered to be contemptible or disliked. You know , just

not a nice person or a mean person. So maybe it came from that. Okay, Anyway we

just give two examples here. Example number one. Somebody might say my God ! He

is such a cheapskate. The only reason he shaves the hair on his head is he

doesn't want to pay for haircuts. You know something like that. That would be

typical or number two here. We could say Bob is a real cheapskate.

Anytime we buy rounds of beer, Bob always disappears when it is his turn.So he

doesn't want to do what you know, you should do. Obviously,

if everybody's buying a round, it's your turn, you should you should do it too. But

you know, maybe he doesn't want to do it. So maybe he doesn't care what people

think of him. He's a cheapskate. He doesn't want to spend that money. Okay.

Anyway, I hope you got it. I hope it's clear. Thank you for your time. Bye-bye.