"mingy" meaning in English

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      "form": "mingier",
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      "form": "mingiest",
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          "ref": "1974, GB Edwards, The Book of Ebenezer Le Page, New York, published 2007, page 298",
          "text": "After the Liberation Mrs Crewe kept on being as mingy as before with the food; and wouldn't let Harold buy any new clothes.",
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          "ref": "1985, Peter Carey, Illywhacker, Faber and Faber, published 2003, page 413",
          "text": "Now all that, in its mingy way, is logical enough.",
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        "Mean, miserly, stingy."
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          "stingy"
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        "(colloquial) Mean, miserly, stingy."
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          "word": "niggardly"
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          "code": "bg",
          "lang": "Bulgarian",
          "roman": "stisnat",
          "sense": "mean, miserly",
          "word": "стиснат"
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          "lang": "Bulgarian",
          "roman": "skǎperničeski",
          "sense": "mean, miserly",
          "word": "скъпернически"
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          "code": "mi",
          "lang": "Maori",
          "sense": "mean, miserly",
          "word": "kaihākere"
        }
      ]
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    {
      "ipa": "/ˈmɪndʒi/",
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  "word": "mingy"
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          "ref": "1974, GB Edwards, The Book of Ebenezer Le Page, New York, published 2007, page 298",
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      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "stisnat",
      "sense": "mean, miserly",
      "word": "стиснат"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "skǎperničeski",
      "sense": "mean, miserly",
      "word": "скъпернически"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "mean, miserly",
      "word": "kaihākere"
    }
  ],
  "word": "mingy"
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