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Stingy
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Part of speech: adjective (a.)
Stinging; able to sting.
Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 2 of 2
Part of speech: adjective (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.