Thrift vs Stingy - What's the difference?
thrift | stingy |
(uncountable) The characteristic of using a minimum of something (especially money).
* (rfdate) Spenser
* (Ambrose Bierce)
(countable, US) A savings bank.
(countable) Any of various plants of the genus Armeria , particularly .
(obsolete) Success and advance in the acquisition of property; increase of worldly goods; gain; prosperity.
* 1380+ , (Geoffrey Chaucer), (The Canterbury Tales)
* : Act I, Scene I:
(obsolete) Vigorous growth, as of a plant.
Stinging; able to sting.
Extremely close and covetous; meanly avaricious; niggardly; miserly; penurious; as, a stingy churl.
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As a noun thrift
is (uncountable) the characteristic of using a minimum of something (especially money).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.thrift
English
(wikipedia thrift)Noun
- His thrift can be seen in how little the trashman takes from his house.
- The rest, willing to fall to thrift , prove very good husbands.
- Usually home mortgages are obtained from thrifts .
- Medleth na-more with that art, I mene, / For, if ye doon, your thrift is goon ful clene.
- I have a mind presages me such thrift .
