stin ‧ gy /ˈstɪndʒi/ BrE AmE adjective
[ Date: 1600-1700 ; Origin: Probably from an unrecorded English dialect stinge 'sting' (noun) ]
1 . informal not generous, especially with money SYN mean :
She’s too stingy to give money to charity.
2 . a stingy amount of something, especially food, is too small:
a stingy portion of vegetables
—stingily adverb
—stinginess noun [uncountable]