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Like Shylock
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stingy
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Wiktionary
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Etymology 1 a. stinging; able to sting. Etymology 2 a. 1 unwilling to spend, give, or share; ungenerous; extremely close and covetous; meanly avaricious; niggardly; miserly; penurious; as, a stingy churl. 2 small, scant, meager, insufficient
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ Don't be so stingy ! It's your turn to buy me a drink. ▪ I don't know why they were so stingy with the drinks -- they have plenty of money. ▪ I was given a stingy portion of vegetables with rice. ▪ It's no use asking ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"niggardly, penurious, extremely tight-fisted," 1650s, of uncertain origin, perhaps a dialectal alteration of earlier stingy "biting, sharp, stinging" (1610s), from sting (v.). Back-formation stinge "a stingy person" is recorded from 1905. Related: Stingily ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Stingy may refer to one of the following: A miser The name of a fictional puppet character on LazyTown Stingy (song) , single by Ginuwine