英语词汇“mingy”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

adj

If you're mingy, you're a penny pincher — in other words, you are not generous about spending your money or sharing it with others. A mingy friend won't offer to buy you lunch, or even a jawbreaker.

The adjective mingy is an informal way to describe people who don't like to part with their money, people you might describe as miserly. A mingy restaurant patron is likely to leave a very small tip for his waiter, and it could take years before you get a raise if you work for a mingy boss. Mingy can be used as a variation on stingy, and in fact it probably came from a combination of mean and stingy.

WORD FAMILY

mingy: mingily, minginess

USAGE EXAMPLES

A stable and predictable regulatory system produces only mingy or non-existent rents.

Wall Street Journal(Aug 19, 2016)

But when the major violence does kick in, it feels pinched and mingy, rather than resplendent, which is uncharacteristic for Tarantino.

Time(Dec 22, 2015)

But it's a mean, mingy thing — a lot of personal pique and inside baseball.

Time(Sep 23, 2010)

adj (used of persons or behavior) characterized by or indicative of lack of generosity

Syn

mean, miserly, tight
stingy, ungenerous

unwilling to spend

单词	mingy
释义	mingy (once / 437753 pages) adj If you're mingy, you're a penny pincher — in other words, you are not generous about spending your money or sharing it with others. A mingy friend won't offer to buy you lunch, or even a jawbreaker. The adjective mingy is an informal way to describe people who don't like to part with their money, people you might describe as miserly. A mingy restaurant patron is likely to leave a very small tip for his waiter, and it could take years before you get a raise if you work for a mingy boss. Mingy can be used as a variation on stingy, and in fact it probably came from a combination of mean and stingy. WORD FAMILY mingy: mingily, minginess USAGE EXAMPLES A stable and predictable regulatory system produces only mingy or non-existent rents. Wall Street Journal(Aug 19, 2016) But when the major violence does kick in, it feels pinched and mingy, rather than resplendent, which is uncharacteristic for Tarantino. Time(Dec 22, 2015) But it's a mean, mingy thing — a lot of personal pique and inside baseball. Time(Sep 23, 2010) adj (used of persons or behavior) characterized by or indicative of lack of generosity Syn mean, miserly, tight stingy, ungenerous unwilling to spend
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