Brewer's: Penny-father

(A). A miser, a penurious person, who “husbands” his pence

“Good old penny-father was glad of his liquor.”

Pasquil: Jests (1629).

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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