pismirism

English

Etymology

pismire +‎ -ism

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈpɪs.maɪ.ə.ɹɪ.zəm/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈpɪs.maɪ(ə)ˌɹɪ.zəm/, /ˈpɪz.maɪ(ə)ˌɹɪ.zəm/

Noun

pismirism (uncountable)

1. (rare) Hoarding of money; frugality.
   • 1906 March 3, The Academy‎^[1]:

     At the time of our story it was just possible to meet here and there in lane and country road the Englishman, not as a futile human budget of axioms and inane little facts, but as something blent of demigod and viking. Also one might view the most beautiful country on earth as God intended it to be, not as a century of pismirism has made it.

   • 1906 December 22, The Daily News:

     Not to Mrs. Russell Sage, who is still busy thinking how to unload the mass of money piled up by the late Mr. Sage in the course of a life of parsimonious pismirism.

   • 1975, Allan Craig, Counting Things and Magic Rings, →ISBN, page 112:

     Only two roads are open to accounting. One rests upon observance of principle, and the responsibility of professing. The other rests upon observance of rules, and the security of anonymity. One is the road to professionalism the other is the road to pismirism. Unhappily, it is no longer clear which road the wise man would choose.