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stin·gy1    Audio Help   [stin-jee] Pronunciation Key
–adjective, -gi·er, -gi·est.
1.reluctant to give or spend; not generous; niggardly; penurious: He's a stingy old miser.
2.scanty or meager: a stingy little income.

[Origin: 1650–60; perh. deriv. of sting; see -y1]

stin·gi·ly, adverb
stin·gi·ness, noun

1. tight. Stingy, parsimonious, miserly, mean, close all mean reluctant to part with money or goods. Stingy, the most general of these terms, means unwilling to share, give, or spend possessions or money: children who are stingy with their toys; a stingy, grasping skinflint. Parsimonious describes an extreme stinginess arising from unusual or excessive frugality: a sternly parsimonious, penny-pinching existence. Miserly stresses a pathological pleasure in acquiring and hoarding money that is so powerful that even necessities are only grudgingly purchased: a wretched, miserly way of life. Mean suggests a small-minded, ignoble, petty stinginess leading to miserable, cheerless living: depressingly mean with his money; mean surroundings; a mean repast. Close implies extreme caution in spending money, even an aversion to spending: a close dealer, buying only at rock bottom prices; generous with advice, but very close with his money. 2. sparse, paltry, poor.
1. generous.
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sting·y2    Audio Help   [sting-ee] Pronunciation Key
–adjective
having a sting.

[Origin: 1605–15; sting + -y1]
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stin·gy    Audio Help   (stĭn'jē)  Pronunciation Key 
adj.   stin·gi·er, stin·gi·est
  1. Giving or spending reluctantly.
  2. Scanty or meager: a stingy meal; stingy with details about the past.


[Perhaps alteration of dialectal stingy, stinging, from sting.]

stin'gi·ly adv., stin'gi·ness n.
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stingy 
"niggardly, penurious, tight-fisted," 1659, possibly a dialectal alteration of earlier stingy "biting, sharp, stinging" (c.1615), from sting (v.). Back-formation stinge "a stingy person" is recorded from 1914.

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stingy

adjective
1. unwilling to spend; "she practices economy without being stingy"; "an ungenerous response to the appeal for funds" [ant: generous
2. deficient in amount or quality or extent; "meager resources"; "meager fare" [syn: meager] [ant: ample

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stingy [ˈstindʒi] adjective
mean or ungenerous
Example: My father's very stingy with his money; stingy portions of food
Arabic: بَخيل
Chinese (Simplified): 吝啬
Chinese (Traditional): 吝嗇
Czech: lakomý; mizerný
Danish: fedtet
Dutch: gierig
Estonian: kitsi
Finnish: pihi
French: avare; chiche
German: knickerig
Greek: τσιγκούνης, τσιγκούνικος
Hungarian: fukar
Icelandic: nískur
Indonesian: kikir
Italian: avaro; scarso
Japanese: けちな
Korean: 인색한, 부족한
Latvian: skops
Lithuanian: šykštus
Norwegian: gjerrig, gnien, smålig
Polish: skąpy
Portuguese (Brazil): mesquinho, avarento
Portuguese (Portugal): sovina
Romanian: avar; zgârcit; meschin
Russian: скаредно; скудно
Slovak: lakomý; mizerný
Slovenian: skop
Spanish: mezquino, tacaño, parco, escaso
Swedish: snål
Turkish: cimri
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Stingy

Sting"y\, a. Stinging; able to sting.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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Stingy

Stin"gy\, a. [Compar. Stingier; superl. Stingiest.] [Probably from sting, and meaning originally, stinging; hence, biting, nipping (of the wind), churlish, avaricious; or cf. E. skinch.] Extremely close and covetous; meanly avaricious; niggardly; miserly; penurious; as, a stingy churl.

A stingy, narrow-hearted fellow that had a deal of choice fruit, had not the heart to touch it till it began to be rotten. --L'estrange.
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