Kaṭukañcukatā (feminine) [derived by Buddhaghosa as kaṭuka + añcuka (añc), a popular etymology (As 376). At Dhs 1122 and as v.l. in Vibh we have the spelling kaṭakancukatā (for kaṭakuñcakatā?), on which and °kuñcaka see Morris, JPTS 1887, 159 f. and BMPE 277 note 2. — Morris' derivation is kaṭa (kar) + kañcuka + tā (kañcuka = kuñcaka to kuñc, to contract), thus a derivation from kañcuka "bodice" and meaning "being tightened in by a bodice," i.e. tightness. Although the reading kaṭukañc° is the established reading, the v.l. kaṭakuñc° is probably etymologically correct, semantically undoubtedly better. It has undergone dissimilatory vowel-metathesis under influence of popular analogy with kaṭuka. With kuñcikatā cf. the similar expression derived from the same root: kuṇalī-mukha, of a stingy person Pv II 9 28 , which is explained by "saṅkucitaṃ mukhaṃ akāsi" (see kuñcita)] closeness, tightness, close-fistedness, niggardliness. Explained as "the shrinking up of the heart," which prevents the flow or manifestation of generosity. It occurs only in the stock phrase "vevicchaṃ kadariyaṃ k. aggahitattaṃ cittassa" in macchariya passage at Nidd II §614 = Dhs 1122 = Pp 19, 23 = Vibh 357, 371; and in the macchariya explained at Vism 470.