To be stingy or cheap. As in to write a cheeseparing budget, or to cheesepare in providing something.
I'm fairly confident I know whence it comes, but it's a fun word nonetheless.
Used in Le Carré's "A Perfect Spy."
Cheesepare
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Slava
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Cheesepare
Life is like playing chess with chessmen who each have thoughts and feelings and motives of their own.
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Slava
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Re: Cheesepare
Taken up and treated here.
Life is like playing chess with chessmen who each have thoughts and feelings and motives of their own.
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