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Stingy vs Cheapass - What's the difference?

stingy | cheapass |

As adjectives the difference between stingy and cheapass

is that stingy is stinging; able to sting while cheapass is cheap, niggardly, stingy; unwilling to spend money.

As a noun cheapass is

a cheapass person; a cheapskate.

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
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    Derived terms
    * stingily * stinginess

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    * English heteronyms English terms with multiple etymologies

    cheapass

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • (slang) Cheap, niggardly, stingy; unwilling to spend money.

    • Noun

    (es)
  • (slang) A cheapass person; a cheapskate.