Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Stingy; tightfisted; cheap.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective same as
stingy .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective embarrassingly stingy
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[Alteration of chintzy.]
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Examples
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Aim for 60g per twenty-four hours (I prefer bean curd or soja; it is chinchy, easy to fry - with fat-free Pam spray - and carries beaucoup protein).
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Sure, Clovis had complained, the chinchy old skinflint would give them that for stove wood; if they did wear themselves out and saw it up nobody could ever split it, he had said.
The Dollmaker Harriette Arnow 1954
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She wouldn’t let him go, for even with credit from Joe and the milkman, and being as chinchy as she could, Zedke’s bill must be close to a hundred and fifty dollars now.
The Dollmaker Harriette Arnow 1954
ruzuzu commented on the word chinchy
See example on near.
September 5, 2010