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stingy
(encz) | stingy,lakomý adj: Zdeněk Brož |
stingy
(encz) | stingy,skoupý adj: luke |
stingy
(encz) | stingy,skrblivý adj: Zdeněk Brož |
Stingy
(gcide) | Stingy \Sting"y\, a.
Stinging; able to sting.
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Stingy
(gcide) | 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.
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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.
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stingy
(wn) | stingy
adj 1: unwilling to spend; "she practices economy without being
stingy"; "an ungenerous response to the appeal for funds"
[syn: stingy, ungenerous] [ant: generous]
2: deficient in amount or quality or extent; "meager resources";
"meager fare" [syn: meager, meagre, meagerly, stingy,
scrimpy] [ant: ample] |
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Stingy
(gcide) | Stingy \Sting"y\, a.
Stinging; able to sting.
[1913 Webster]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.
[1913 Webster]
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.
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