to be frugal; get along on a scanty allowance: Don't stint on the food. They stinted for years in order to save money.
2.
Archaic.to cease action; desist.
verb (used with object)
3.
to limit to a certain amount, number, share, or allowance, often unduly; set limits to; restrict.
4.
Archaic.to bring to an end; check.
noun
5.
a period of time spent doing something: a two-year stint in the army.
6.
an allotted amount or piece of work: to do one's daily stint.
7.
limitation or restriction, especially as to amount: to give without stint.
8.
a limited, prescribed, or expected quantity, share, rate, etc.: to exceed one's stint.
9.
Obsolete. a pause; halt.
Origin: 1150–1200; (v.) Middle Englishstinten,Old Englishstyntan to make blunt, dull; (noun) Middle English, derivative of the v.; cognate with Old Norsestytta to shorten; cf. stunt1
an extraordinary or unusual thing, person, or event; an exceptional example or instance.
a calculus or concretion found in the stomach or intestines of certain animals, esp. ruminants, formerly reputed to be an effective remedy for poison.
a gadget; dingus; thingumbob.
the offspring of a zebra and a donkey.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
a children's mummer's parade, as on the Fourth of July, with prizes for the best costumes.
"to limit, restrain, to be sparing or frugal," O.E. styntan "to blunt, make dull," from P.Gmc. *stuntijanan (cf. O.N. stuttr "short, scant," M.H.G. stunz "blunt, short," Ger. stutzen "to cut short, curtail, stop, hesitate"), from PIE base *(s)teu- "to beat, strike, push, thrust" (see