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Thorny vs Stingy - What's the difference?

thorny | stingy |

As adjectives the difference between thorny and stingy

is that thorny is having thorns or spines while stingy is stinging; able to sting.

thorny

English

Adjective

(er)
  • having thorns or spines
  • troublesome or vexatious
  • * Shakespeare
    • the steep and thorny way to heaven
  • aloof and irritable
  • * Louisa May Alcott, Good Wives
    • 'Come, Jo, don't be thorny . After studying himself to a skeleton all the week, a fellow deserves petting, and ought to get it.'

    Derived terms

    * (l) * thorny restharrow * thorny trefoil

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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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    • Synonyms
    * See also
    Derived terms
    * stingily * stinginess

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    * English heteronyms English terms with multiple etymologies