Stingy means hating to spend or give even the smallest amount. A stingy portion, stingy with praise, too stingy.
It is an insult, unlike thrifty or frugal, which praise the same behaviour: the difference is whether the saving hurts anybody else. It works for money and for anything given out — stingy with information, a stingy helping. Note the pronunciation, with a soft g, which separates it from stingy meaning covered in stings; and that the word's origin is genuinely uncertain.
1adjectivestingyHating to spend or give even the smallest amount.
“My stingy uncle never buys a round of drinks.”
synonyms: mean, miserly
stingy is a quality of meanness.
Also accepted in games: mean, tight
The origin is unknown, possibly from a dialect form of sting. Whatever the source, the word is only about three hundred years old.
unknown, possibly from stinge, a dialectal variation of sting.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA
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