STINGY

a.

2 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
a.

Stinging; able to sting.

2.
a.

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.


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