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Minny vs Mingy - What's the difference?

minny | mingy |

As a noun minny

is a minnow.

As an adjective mingy is

(colloquial) mean, miserly, stingy.

minny

English

Noun

(minnies)
  • A minnow.
  • * 1901 , Charles Conrad Abbott, A naturalist's rambles about home
    • All I know is, it doesn't seem strange in the turkeys, and same way I've seen rock-fish move like soldiers on a school of minnies ; but for the plovers to do the like seemed all out of place, somehow
    (Webster 1913)

    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