It means a rich and miserly old man,and starts with a c but that is all i can remember.
Any ideas?
Curmudgeon?
Thanks for the reply lender,but thats not it.
Never mind. I just looked curmudgeon up.
It’s neither rich nor miserly.
Happy; shoots first, references the dictionary later
Remembered something,I think it may be pronounced “creesis”.
Data_slave,who may have to read through C in M-W unabridged dictionary.
Croesus?
Croesus
Just went to dictionary.com and typed ‘miserly’ into the thesaurus.
Churl? Codger? Crib?
And, whadayaknow, curmudgeon was there too.
But Croesus works too. Wasn’t he a rich king?
I’d never heard it used to describe somebody, though.
Happy
Croesus , d. c. 547 B.C., king of Lydia (560–c.547 B.C.), noted for his great wealth. He was the son of Alyattes. He continued his father’s policy of conquering the Ionian cities of Asia Minor, but on the whole he was friendly to the Greeks, and he is supposed to have given refuge to the Athenian statesman Solon. Threatened by Cyrus the Great of Persia, Croesus allied himself with Amasis II of Egypt and Nabonidus of Babylonia against the Persian might, but the alliance was of no avail. Cyrus defeated and captured Croesus, and, according to Herodotus, Croesus cast himself upon a funeral pyre.
Rather than calling somebody a Croesus, the phrase is as rich as Croesus.
Yes,thanks everyone croesus is it.
I kept trying phonetic spellings with dictionary.com and was coming up empty.