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Mingiest vs Zingiest - What's the difference?

mingiest | zingiest |

As adjectives the difference between mingiest and zingiest

is that mingiest is (mingy) while zingiest is (zingy).

mingiest

English

Adjective

(head)
  • (mingy)

    • mingy

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • (colloquial) Mean, miserly, stingy.
  • *1974 , (GB Edwards), The Book of Ebenezer Le Page , New York 2007, p. 298:
  • *:After the Liberation Mrs Crewe kept on being as mingy as before with the food; and wouldn't let Harold buy any new clothes.
  • *1985 , (Peter Carey), Illywhacker , Faber and Faber 2003, p. 413:
  • *:Now all that, in its mingy way, is logical enough.

    • Synonyms

    * niggardly

    zingiest

    English

    Adjective

    (head)
  • (zingy)

    • zingy

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Full of zest.
  • * 1991 , Howard Karren, The Premiere guide to movies on video
    • In the early drafts of the zingy script (by Charles Lederer), the visitor was to have been considerably more outre, but apparently the special effects folks weren't up to the job