STINGY, adjective [from straitness.]
1. Extremely close and covetous; meanly avaricious; niggardly; narrow hearted; as a stingy churl. [A word in popular use, but low and not admissible into elegant writing.]
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Webster's Dictionary 1828
American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.