stingy

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There ensues either a never-ending battle with estrangement, or else a beaten woman (for the stingy are stubborn) accepts her lot with a broken spirit, sad and deënergized.

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  1. adjective Giving or spending reluctantly.
  2. adjective Scanty or meager: a stingy meal; stingy with details about the past.

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  • They are not stingy, and are everywhere welcome guests. —  The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, from 1865 to His Death, Volume II, 1869-1873
  • “The Dutch are very stingy, and I shall take care not to trouble them again,” he remarked to a friend. —  The World's Great Men of Music
  • We see very little in them to make us apprehensive of their being covetous or stingy, and indisposed to give service freely School hours 8-9.20, 2-3.30, singing 7-8 P.M., chapel 6.45 A.M 6.30 P.M Of the 134 Melanesians, besides the baby, ten are teachers, and with their help we get on very fairly. —  Life of John Coleridge Patteson
  • Mom was so stingy, and Harmony's dad was entirely unreasonable on the subject. —  FSFMay2005
  • "My throat is sore and stingy, and it smells vaguely like sulfur outside," she reports from the town of Girdwood, which has received a coating of ash from Redoubt's recent eruptions. —  YubaNet.com
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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Perhaps alteration of dialectal stingy, stinging, from sting.

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  1. from sting + -y.
  2. A dialectal (assibilated) form and deflected use of stingy.
 

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/ˈstɪndʒi/
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