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Stinging; able to sting.

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  1. a. Stinging; able to sting.
  2. superl. Extremely close and covetous; meanly avaricious; niggardly; miserly; penurious; as, a stingy churl.
  3. adj. unwilling to spend (money, time, resources, etc.)
  4. adj. deficient in amount or quality or extent
  5. Stinging; able to sting. Extremely close and covetous; meanly avaricious; niggardly; miserly; penurious; as, a stingy churl. A stingy, narrow-hearted fellow that had a deal of choice fruit, had not the heart to touch it till it began to be rotten. L'estrange.
  6. j:100 a. unwilling to spend