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| Date: | 1600-1700 |
| Origin: | Probably from an unrecorded English dialect stinge 'sting' (noun) |
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stin‧gy
1 informal not generous, especially with money [= mean]: 
She's too stingy to give money to charity.
She's too stingy to give money to charity.2 a stingy amount of something, especially food, is too small : a stingy portion of vegetables
a stingy portion of vegetables —stingily adverb
—stinginess noun [uncountable]
