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Mingy vs Miny - What's the difference?

mingy | miny |

As adjectives the difference between mingy and miny

is that mingy is (colloquial) mean, miserly, stingy while miny is of or resembling a mine or miny can be .

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

    miny

    English

    Etymology 1

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Of or resembling a mine.

    • Etymology 2

    Adjective

    (en adjective)

    • See also

    * ---- ==Kok-Nar==

    Noun

    (head)
  • animal

    • References

    * Luise Anna Hercus, ?Harold James Koch, Aboriginal Placenames (ISBN 1921666080, 2009) ----