stingy

English

Etymology 1

sting +‎ -y

Pronunciation

• enPR: stĭngʹē, IPA: /ˈstɪŋi/, X-SAMPA: /"stINi/

Adjective

stingy (comparative stingier, superlative stingiest)

1. Stinging; able to sting.

Translations

able to sting

• Finnish: pistävä (fi)
• French: piquant (fr)

• German: stechend (de)
• Japanese: 刺しそうな (ja) (sashisō na)

Etymology 2

Uncertain, possibly from stinge, a dialectical variation of sting (verb)

Pronunciation

• enPR: stĭnʹjē, IPA: /ˈstɪndʒi/, X-SAMPA: /"stIndZi/

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Adjective

stingy (comparative stingier, superlative stingiest)

1. Extremely close and covetous; meanly avaricious; niggardly; miserly; penurious; as, a stingy churl.

Synonyms

• See also Wikisaurus:stingy

Derived terms

• stingily
• stinginess

Translations

covetous, meanly avaricious

• Arabic: بخيل (ar) (bakhiil)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 小氣 (cmn), 小气 (cmn) (xiǎoqì), (informal) 摳 (cmn), 抠 (cmn) (kōu)

• Czech: lakomý (cs) m
• Dalmatian: avaraus
• Danish: fedtet (da), nærig (da), smålig (da)
• Finnish: nuuka (fi), itara (fi)
• French: avare (fr), pingre (fr), chiche (fr), radin (fr) m, radine (fr) f
• German: geizig (de), knauserig (de), knausrig (de), gierig (de)
• Hindi: कंजूस (hi) (kanjūs)
• Hungarian: fösvény (hu), zsugori (hu), fukar (hu)
• Italian: tirchio (it), avaro (it), taccagno (it)
• Japanese: けちな (ja) (kechi-na), 吝嗇な (ja) (りんしょくな, rinshoku-na), けちくさい (ja)
• Korean: (attributive) 인색한 (ko) (insaek-han), (predicative) 인색하다 (ko) (insaek-hada)

• Krio: krabit
• Persian: خَسیس (fa)
• Portuguese: ávaro (pt)
• Romanian: ciufút (ro)
• Russian: скупой (ru) (skupój), скаредный (ru) (skárednyj), прижимистый (ru) (prižímistyj), жадный (ru) (žádnyj)
• Sardinian:

  Campidanese Sardinian: pistriccu, asuríu, cananèu, priogòsu, stiticu, taccagnu

  Gallurese Sardinian: scurzónu

  Logudorese Sardinian: arragatu, cogheddu, grengu, isurídu, istitigu, zeccòsu

• Sassarese Sardinian: atziccaddu, migragnòsu, zecchincùru
• Spanish: mezquino (es), tacaño (es)
• Swedish: snål (sv)
• Turkish: cimri (tr)
• Urdu: کنجوس (ur) (kanjūs)
• Yiddish: קאַרג (yi) (karg)

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Translations to be checked

• Dutch: gierig
• Korean: 인색한 (insaekhan)

Anagrams

• stying