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What is "mingy"

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
mingy
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ All a bit mingy for such a big house, was Lalage's inward comment.
▪ She seemed little and mingy, pale and tight.
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mingy

a. (context colloquial English) mean, miserly, stingy.

WordNet
mingy

  1. adj. used of persons or behavior; characterized by or indicative of lack of generosity; "a mean person"; "he left a miserly tip" [syn: mean, miserly, tight]

  2. [also: mingiest, mingier]

Usage examples of "mingy".

But, try as she might, the pressure of her perceptions couldn't be long resisted: amid the extravagant unreal splendor of the land, the versatile beauty of the people, life, the mingy getting and spending of it, remained terribly obdurate (a dismaying reminder of her own hopeless enthrallment to the principle that the allure of comfort draws us on).