Crossword clues for stingy
stingy
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Stingy \Sting"y\, a. Stinging; able to sting.
Stingy \Stin"gy\, a. [Compar. Stingier; superl. Stingiest.] [Probably from sting, and meaning originally, stinging; hence, biting, nipping (of the wind), churlish, avaricious; or cf. E. skinch.] Extremely close and covetous; meanly avaricious; niggardly; miserly; penurious; as, a stingy churl.
A stingy, narrow-hearted fellow that had a deal of
choice fruit, had not the heart to touch it till it
began to be rotten.
--L'estrange.
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; stinginess.
Wiktionary
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
WordNet
adj. not generous; "she practices economy without being stingy"; "an ungenerous response to the appeal for funds" [syn: ungenerous] [ant: generous]
selfishly unwilling to share with others [syn: ungenerous]
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
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"Stingy" is a song by R&B singer Ginuwine. It was originally from the Barbershop soundtrack then included on his fourth album The Senior the following year.
Usage examples of "stingy".
I was stingy with them, and no one durst beg any from me, because I had said that they were very expensive, and that in all Corfu there was no confectioner who could make or physician who could analyse them.
But Chainer had missed a lot while he was convalescing, and Skellum had so far been stingy with details.
During the times when the Bay was stingy, tourism kept the town alive.
He worked belowdecks, trimming out the cabin until the heat sent him topside desperate for fluids and one stingy breeze.
On the other hand, the kitchenmaster had been stingy with some of the food, particularly the cheese and dried meats.
Eve walked around the room, into the little bath, out into the stingy living area with its mini kitchen.
There was a little mining in the area, so there was always a smattering of miners in town buying supplies, getting cleaned up from several months out on their claims, or just raising a little hell before they went back to the supremely boring task of trying to wrest a little wealth from the bowels of stingy Mother Earth.
He reckoned that not everybody in town would be quite so stingy with their information.
This propensity for being generous and openhanded came from his having been a soldier in his youth, for soldiering is a school where the stingy man becomes liberal, and the liberal man becomes prodigal, and if there are any soldiers who are miserly, they are, like monsters, very rarely seen.
Dulcie has been going to the French Market less and less, and your customers have become quite stingy with trading their foodstuffs and paying their bills.
Cole proved far less stingy with its dispersal than Angus had been, even in good times.
Store up all the power you can when we get close to good lines of force, and be stingy with it in between.
Jane almost smiled into the darkness, remembering her years of growth and how hungry she always was, even though Eliza Chaffee could never be accused of setting a stingy table.
Granaries whimpered about the heels of the Consortium of Traders, begging the Cooperative of Worlds for relief from their dismal economies when the Traders grew stingy with trade goods.
Two small windows in the rear doors allowed in a stingy light from the street lights they passed, indicating that they were still in the city.