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Stingy vs Griping - What's the difference?

stingy | griping | Related terms |

As an adjective stingy

is stinging; able to sting.

As a verb griping is

present participle of gripe.

As a noun griping is

pinching and spasmodic pain in the intestines; gripe.

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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    * stingily * stinginess

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    griping

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • Pinching and spasmodic pain in the intestines; gripe.
  • * 1824 , John Mason Good, The study of medicine: with a physiological system of nosology
    • The gripings are always severe, and a sort of painful descent of the bowels accompanies every evacuation.