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If you are looking to describe someone with a Scrooge- or Grinch-like tendency to pinch his pennies, then stingy can be your adjective of choice. Or, if you are looking to describe something you have too little of — like a 43-second coffee break — you can use stingy as well. Learn the English definition and meaning of Stingy with examples, pronunciation, and translations to enhance your vocabulary. Stingy definition: Giving or spending reluctantly.This, which is now chiefly used in the sense of inferior, low, ignoble, or of avaricious, penurious, " stingy," meant originally that which is common to more persons or things than one. Stingy means unwilling to spend or give, or scanty or meager. Find out the origin, usage, and translations of this adjective, and see related words like parsimonious and miserly.