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Snooty vs Stingy - What's the difference?

snooty | stingy |

As adjectives the difference between snooty and stingy

is that snooty is pompous; snobbish; inclined to turn up one's nose while stingy is stinging; able to sting or stingy can be extremely close and covetous; meanly avaricious; niggardly; miserly; penurious; as, a stingy churl.

snooty

English

Adjective

(er)
  • pompous; snobbish; inclined to turn up one's nose
  • Sir Sydney was an arrogant, snooty , bigoted prig, so it was with some satisfaction that I wrote out his parking ticket.
    Sissi was a very snooty and spoiled girl with clear social problems.
  • elite; exclusive
  • Her parties were snooty affairs; custom designed cocktail dresses that cost more than a decent luxury car were ''de rigueur''.

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    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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    Derived terms
    * stingily * stinginess