an individual who either is
1. a thief alias an alf-incher (half-incher) rhyming slang for he who half-inches (pinches, nicks, steals, palms, etc)
2. extremely avaricious.
Charles Dicken's character Ebenezer Scrooge is an excellent example of a penny-pincher.
3. imbecilic ignorance and confusion with
a- German derived pincer (tweezers) often with regard to maneuver warfare known also as the double flank envelopment- famous examples: Hannibal's pincer movement at the Battle of Cannae 212, or Germany 1940 General von Kleists'Battle of
France against
French and Allied Expeditionary
Force or the largest ever pincer movement- 1941 Axis versus Soviets at Battle of Kiev
b) pinscher (a breed of German guard
dog) a dobermen pinscher, a mini pinscher
"The year was 39 and the sky was filled with lead
Hitler was invading Poland and
Paddy, Holyhead.
Come all you Pincher Laddies and long distance men,
Never work for McAlpine, George Wimpey or
John Laing