Stingy

Definition: Stingy

Stingy

Adjective

1. Not generous; "she practices economy without being stingy"; "an ungenerous response to the appeal for funds".

2. Selfishly unwilling to share with others.

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Date "stingy" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references)

Multilingual Slang

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Synonym: Stingy

Insufficiency

Scant; (small); scarce; not to be had, not to be had for love or money, not to be had at any price; scurvy; stingy; at the end of one's tether; without resources; in want; (poor); in debt.

Parsimony

Adjective: parsimonious, penurious, stingy, miserly, mean, shabby, peddling, scrubby, penny wise, near, close; fast handed, close handed, strait handed; close fisted, hard fisted, tight fisted; tight, sparing; chary; grudging, griping; Verb: illiberal, ungenerous, churlish, hidebound, sordid, mercenary, venal, covetous, usurious, avaricious, greedy, extortionate, rapacious.

Crosswords: Stingy

Gif me a visky, ginger ale on the side, and don' be stingy, baby (Anna Christie; writing credit: Frances Marion; Eugene O'Neill)

Zip, zero, stingy with dinero (I Just Wanna Love U (Give it 2 Me); performing artist: Jay-Z)

The Stingy Girl and the Box of Candy (1898)

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Books

• Mr. Stingy (reference)

• The Punishment of the Stingy (reference)

• The Stingy Baker (reference)

  (more book examples)

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Expressions using "stingy": be stingy ♦ be stingy of smth. ♦ stingy person. Additional references.

Albanian

neqez (covetous, miser), koprrac (avaricious, cheese paring, churl, clam, close-fisted, curmudgeon, curmudgeonly, grasping, griping, mean, mingy, miser, money grubber, money-grubbing, muckworm, narrow, near, rapacious, saving, screwy, scrimp, sharpener, skin, skinflint, tight-fisted, tightwad, turn-penny). (various references)

Arabic 

‏هزيل (exiguous, gaunt, haggard, lean, meager, meagre, miserable, peak, peaky, pitiful, scanty, scrawny, short, sickly, sketchy, skimp, skimpy, skinny, slender, slight, slim, spare, sparing, watery, wretched), ‏ضئيل (bantam, exiguous, fractional, imperceptible, insignificant, little, lowbrow, meager, meagre, nominal, piddling, puny, sketchy, slender, sparse, thin, wretched), ‏شحيح (mean, mingy, miserly, penury, piker, scant, scarce, sordid), ‏بخيل (avaricious, cheeseparing, mean, miserly, shy, skimpy, skinflint, spare, sparing, tight, tight-fisted). (various references)

Bulgarian 

скъпернически (avaricious, covetous, mean, mingy, miser, miserly, penurious, shabby), оскъден (beggarly, exiguous, insufficient, jejune, lean, meager, meagre, penurious, scant, scanty, scarce, scrimpy, short, skimpy, skinny, spare, sparing, starveling, thin, tight). (various references)

Chinese 

靳 (martingale), 慳 , 摳 (dig out), 嗇 , 小氣 (narrow, petty), 屯 (difficult, to station, to store up), 心� . (various references)

Czech

skoupý (parsimonious, short, tightfisted, tight-fisted), mizerný (abysmal, bad, bleeding, bum, cheap, crappy, crummy, dismal, foul, lousy, miserable, painful, paltry, rotten, tinpot, vile, wretched), malý (faint, little, minor, pokey, remote, scant, short, slender, small, tight, tiny, young), lakomý (avaricious, grasping, mean, miserly, parsimonious, tightfisted), hubený (jejune, lank, lean, slender, slim, spare, thin). (various references)

Danish

gerrig (avaricious, miserly). (various references)

Dutch

pinnig (avaricious, miserly), inhalig (avaricious, miserly), hebzuchtig (acquisitive, avaricious, greedy, miserly), gierig (avaricious, miserly). (various references)

Esperanto

avara (avaricious, miserly). (various references)

Faeroese

gírigur (avaricious, miserly). (various references)

Farsi 

ناشی ازخست , للیم (Skimpy, Ungenerous), گران کیسه , تنک چشم , خسیس (Hard, Hidebound, Miserly, Penurious, Scotchman, Scrimpy, Skimpy, Skinflint, Sordid, Stringent, Tight, Ungenerous). (various references)

Finnish

saita (avaricious, mean, miserly, tight-fisted). (various references)

French

avare. (various references)

Frisian

taaimelk (avaricious, miserly), gjirrich (avaricious, miserly), earnich (avaricious, miserly). (various references)

German

geizig (avaricious, avariciously, costive, illiberal, mean, miserly, parsimonious, parsimoniously, penurious, penuriously, stingily, thrifty, tight-fisted), geizen (be mean, be miserly, be sparing, be stingy). (various references)

Greek 

παραδόπιστος (mean, miserly, tight-fisted), φιλάργυροσ (avaricious, illiberal, miser, miserly, muckworm, parsimonious, penurious, skinflint, sordid, ungenerous), τσιγκούνησ (parsimonious, piker, skinflint, tightfisted), τσιγγούνης (mean, miserly). (various references)

Hebrew 

קמצן (mean, mingy, miser, miserly, skinflint). (various references)

Hungarian

szúrós (barbed, bristly, fling, hirsute, intent, nasty, prickly, pungent, spiky, stinging), fukar (avaricious, be stingy, cheese paring, mean, mingy, miserly, money-grubbing, scrimp, scrimpy, shabby, skimpy, strait), fösvény (avaricious, churlish, curmudgeon, hunks, miser, miserly, money grubber, near, parsimonious, pelting, penurious, shabby, skinflint, tightwad), zsugori (avaricious, churlish, costive, curmudgeon, fisty, mingy, miser, miserly, parsimonious, pinching, screw, screwy, shabby, skinflint, sordid, thrifty, tightwad, to flay a flint), fullánkos (stinging). (various references)

Indonesian

pelit (miserly, penurious), medit, kedekut, cekel (miserly). (various references)

Italian

avaro (avaricious, close, grasping, greedy, hard-fisted, mean, mingy, miser, miserly, near, penurious, skinflint, tight, tightfisted, tightwad). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

渋い (an aura of refined masculinity, astringent, bitter, grim, quiet, sober, sullen, tasteful). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

しぶい (an aura of refined masculinity, astringent, bitter, grim, quiet, sober, sullen, tasteful), せ�"い (petty, small-minded), かねにきたない (meanabout money), �"まか (detailed, fine, small), けちけち (tightfisted). (various references)

Korean 

인색한. (various references)

Manx

oiddagh, gortagh (beggarly, chary, cheese-paring, close-fisted, frugal, grudging, hurt, hurtful, illiberal, injurious, meagre, miser, miserly, parsimonious, penurious, pinching, scant, scanty, skimpy), cribbidjagh (tight-fisted), boiddaghoil. (various references)

Pig Latin

ingystay.(various references)

Portuguese

avaro (avaricious, covetous, mean, miser, miserly, narrow-fisted, tight, tight-fisted), avarento (avaricious, close-fisted, curmudgeonly, hunks, iron-fisted, mean, miser, miserly, parsimonious, penurious, scraper, scrimpy, skimpy, skinflint, tight, tight-fisted). (various references)

Romanian

sãrac (barren, beggarly, destitute, empty, hard up, impecunious, in straitened circumstances, lean, low-lived, meager, meagre, mean, needful, needy, pauper, peeled, penniless, penurious, piteous, pitiable, pitiful, poor, poor man, poverty stricken, scanty, small, sterile, void), zgârcit (accumulator, avaricious, cheese paring, churlish, clenched, close, close-fisted, close-handed, costive, covetous, curmudgeon, grasping, hunks, illiberal, iron-fisted, mean, miser, miserly, money grubber, muckworm, parsimonious, penny father, penny-wise, penurious, screw, skimpy, skin, skinflint, sparing, tight), meschin (base, basely, base-spirited, costive, hen-hearted, illiberal, little, low down, mean, mercantile, nasty, paltrily, paltry, peddling, pettily, petty, shabby, small, sneaky, sordid, trivial), cãrpãnos (penny father), avar (accumulative, avaricious, churl, churlish, close, close-fisted, grasping, miser, miserly, money grubber, muckworm, penurious, screw), ţigãnos (swarthy). (various references)

Russian 

скупой (cheese paring, churlish, close, close-fisted, curmudgeonly, griping, grudging, hard, hardfisted, mean, mingy, miserly, narrow, near, parsimonious, penny-pinching, penurious, scrimp, scrimpy, skimpy, tight-fisted, ungenerous). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

sa žaokom, oskudan (barren, deficient, destitute, exiguous, meager, meagre, necessitous, needy, penurious, poor, scant, scanty, scarce, short, shy, skimpy, spare, sparing, stringent, tight), škrt (avaricious, chary, close-fisted, grudging, hardfisted, mean, miser, miserly, parsimonious, penurious, scanty, scotch, scrimp, scrimpy, skimpy, tight, tightfisted, tight-fisted). (various references)

Spanish

tacaño (cheapie, cheapskate, cheeseparing, close, mean, mingy, miser, miserly, penny-pinching, penurious, piker, pinchpenny, screw, skimpy, skinflint, tight, tightwad). (various references)

Swedish

snål (acquisitive, chary, close, close-fisted, eager, greedy, illiberal, mean, mingy, skimpy, stingly, tight-fisted, ungenerous). (various references)

Turkish

pinti (cheeseparing, churlish, close-fisted, mangy, miser, parsimonious, screw, skinflint, tightwad, ungenerous), paragöz (acquisitive, avaricious, mercenary, miser, money grubber), kıt (close, constricted, droughty, exiguous, few, lean, limited, meager, meagre, penurious, scant, scanty, scarce, scrimpy, short, skimp, skimpy), hasis (costive, hard-fisted, mean, parsimonious, rapacious, Scrooge, spare, vile), cimri (chary, cheapskate, cheeseparing, churlish, close, close-fisted, costive, hard-fisted, illiberal, light purse, long purse, mangy, mean, measly, mingy, miser, near, parsimonious, penny pincher, penurious, piker, pinchpenny, screw, scrimp, scrimpy, Scrooge, shabby, shylock, skimp, skimpy, skin, skinflint, skinny, sordid, spare, tight, tight purse, tight-fisted, tightwad, ungenerous), az (a bit, contracted, few, hypo-, inconsiderable, insufficient, little, meager, meagre, poco, poor, scrimp, scrimpy, seldom, shoestring, short, skimp, skimpy, slender, slim, small, spare, under). (various references)

Ukrainian

убогий (bald, bare, gimp, jimp, pokey, poking, poky, poverty stricken, poverty-struck, scant, scanty, scraggy, skimp, starveling, wretched), скупий (chary, cheeseparing, churlish, clam, close-fisted, covetous, gripping, grudging, hard-fisted, illiberal, mean-spirited, mingy, miserly, narrow, near, nigh, parsimonious, penny-pinching, saving, scant, screwy, scrimpy, skimpy, snippy, split-farthing, tight-fisted), жалкий. (various references)

Vietnamese 

keo kiệt (iron-fisted, miserly, near, scrimpy, skimpingly), có ngòi; có vòi, bủn xỉn có nọc. (various references)

Welsh

crintach. (various references)

avare, avari, avaris, avaro, avarus, tenax. (various references)

Misspellings

"Stingy" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: singy, Stangl, stangy, stanly, Steny, stigy, stinge, stingey, stingo, stiny, stungy, tingy, Tsing. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: stying.

-1 letter: sting, tings, tying.

-2 letters: gins, gist, gits, nits, sign, sing, snit, ting, tins, tiny, tyin, yins.

-3 letters: gin, git, ins, its, nit, sin, sit, sty, syn, tin, tis, yin.

-4 letters: in, is, it, si, ti.

+1 letter: staying, stringy, stygian, styling.

+2 letters: flytings, scything, stimying, stingily, stingray, storying, straying, stroying, studying, stylings, stymying, trysting, yeasting.

+3 letters: anythings, astonying, curtsying, egyptians, encysting, estraying, gymnastic, gyrations, hygienist, lastingly, mistyping, nystagmic, oystering, restyling, safetying, signatory, steadying, stingrays, stithying, stylising, stylizing, stymieing, synergist, teasingly, unsightly, yachtings.

+4 letters: amnestying, autolysing, autopsying, bustlingly, curtseying, cytogenies, destroying, eyestrings, fantasying, generosity, gymnastics, gyniatries, hygienists, justifying, laryngitis, misogynist, misstyling, mystifying, outstaying, oysterings, panegyrist, playthings, restudying, roystering, sanguinity, satisfying, scathingly, skywriting, slantingly, soothingly, sportingly, sterlingly, stiflingly, stingingly, stinkingly, stirringly, strikingly, stringency, stunningly, stupefying, synergetic, synergists, testifying, trustingly.