Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Informal Small in quantity; meager: mingy wages.
- adj. Informal Mean and stingy.
Wiktionary
WordNet 3.0
- adj. (used of persons or behavior) characterized by or indicative of lack of generosity
Etymologies
- Origin uncertain. (Wiktionary)
- Perhaps from m(ean)2 + (st)ingy. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Oh, come on ,it's less than twenty quid - don't be 'mingy' !”
“They sent two boxes and I said, 'You're being mingy, I want four.”
“When he's got three mornings' worth of video tape – which is all he can afford on this mingy little grant – John will be able to start on the really creative part of the project.”
“Shot digitally on a mingy budget, it looks start-of-the-art Hollywood --- just raw and unvarnished, like Hollywood never is.”
“The Republicans he seeks to satisfy are ideological goofballs like Iowa's Sen. Chuck Grassley, who wails that a nonprofit public insurance option would offer better deals to consumers than the mingy, exorbitantly expensive health care policies sold by the monopolistic insurance giants.”
“First day of Swampitude and the left-wing blogosphere -- which is overpopulated by illiberal leftists and reactionary progressives -- is already attacking me: 24 mostly mingy comments about my Left Behind post, many of which seem to be steaming off a post by Greg Sargent, who writes a blog called The Horse's ...”
“They are treating me so well, and they are such nice people, it's hard to find anything mingy to say.”
“Gordon marries the mother-to-be of his child, takes the job at the New Albion, where he creates a successful ad campaign for foot deodorant, and even buys an aspidistra, the symbol he had long derided of “mingy lower-middle class decency,” installing it in the front window of their apartment for all the world to see.”
“The mother, the Angela of the title, begged for charity and lived off the mingy help of relatives, at one point sleeping with a cousin so that her children might have a place to live.”
“The corruption culture in Illinois tends to be mingy, pedestrian, shameful.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘mingy’.
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meaning
bemean, demean, meaningful, meaningless, meant, intermean, misdemeanor, means, cadmean, meanwhile, permeance, idumean and 59 more...
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SCRUBJAYS IDIOM
EXTRAPOLATE, altruistic, misanthropic, predicate, pejoritive, disparaging, bucolic, sylvan, veracity, autodidact, jejune, erudite and 110 more...
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Papageno's Words, Pt. I
hobbledehoy, absquatulate, chthonic, prolix, ululate, internecine, verisimilitude, animadversion, concupiscence, vertiginous, cucullate, lucubrate and 1554 more...
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aozuas's Words
sense data, hyperreality, brouhaha, ibid, apophenia, fnord, lackadaisical, schadenfreude, bildungsroman, ready-made, readymade, tergiversar and 654 more...
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Peter Carey's Illywhacker
Culling my "Learned (or Encountered) in Reading" list. Thanks for the idea, yarb.
tinea, mingy, blanco, bitzer, mallee fowl, yabbies, coir, bluey, stoush, barney, currawong, providore and 43 more...
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gennessee's Words
rapscallion, sniffy, mizzle, rood, cachinnation, eldritch, crepitation, virid, riant, chary, geophagy, inveigle and 8 more...
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Seedy's Words
dustyfoot, o-dark-thirty, architrave crown, limbeck, galoot, feckless, smock, snood, sleck, noceur, rake, libertine and 33 more...
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Favourite words
smirk, fractious, misanthrope, apocalypse, disingenuous, tetchy, piffle, dither, mingy, sneaky, dope, quadruped and 45 more...
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marinaY's Words
scruffy, euphemism, schadenfreude, propensity, pugilist, troglodyte, mucinous, fecundity, the pot calling t..., insipid, mingy, moribund and 2 more...
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V. Bad!
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Food - Bad
Tweets
Looking for tweets for mingy.
qroqqa Rupert Brooke, letter, 1912: I called you a mingy and coprologous Oxford poetaster.
Nancy Mitford, 1940: [Mrs Holst] only has the mingiest little diamond clip you ever saw.
Each in their own world. Apr 17, 2009
chained_bear "If he had been the sort of man to share his worries with his wife, she would have been sure to have pointed it out to him, and even done it nicely, so that he would not feel stupid. But he had a stern sense of a husband's responsibilities and it would never have occurred to him that he might show such a frightening document to a woman.
"So he did not reread the agreement calmly. He did not discuss it with his wife. Instead he decided, even before he met Charles, that he would extract the sum from him.
"Now all that, in its mingy way, is logical enough...."
—Peter Carey, Illywhacker, 439 Apr 17, 2009
johnmperry mean, miserly
unconnected with minge Jul 23, 2008