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S vs Stingy - What's the difference?

s | stingy |

As a letter s

is the letter s with a.

As an adjective stingy is

stinging; able to sting or stingy can be extremely close and covetous; meanly avaricious; niggardly; miserly; penurious; as, a stingy churl.

s

Translingual

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Letter

  • The nineteenth letter of the .

    • Symbol

    (wikipedia) (mul-symbol)
  • voiceless alveolar fricative
  • Symbol for second , an SI unit of measurement of time.

    • See also

    (Latn-script) * * (esh) * (dze) * {{Letter , page=S , NATO=Sierra , Morse=ยทยทยท , Character=S , Braille=? }} Image:Latin S.png, Capital and lowercase versions of S , in normal and italic type Image:Fraktur letter S.png, Uppercase and lowercase S in Fraktur Symbols for SI units ----

    stingy

    English

    Etymology 1

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Stinging; able to sting.

    • Etymology 2

    Uncertain, possibly from stinge, a dialectal variation of .

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Extremely close and covetous; meanly avaricious; niggardly; miserly; penurious; as, a stingy churl.
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    • Synonyms
    * See also
    Derived terms
    * stingily * stinginess

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    * English heteronyms English terms with multiple etymologies