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mingiest

mingiest is the superlative form of mingy.

Meaning of mingy

Adjective

mingy (comparative mingier, superlative mingiest)

  1. (colloquial) Mean, miserly, stingy.
    • 'And weren't you happy as an officer and a gentleman, when your Colonel was dead?'
      'No! They were a mingy lot.' He laughed suddenly. 'The Colonel used to say: Lad, the English middle classes have to chew every mouthful thirty times because their guts are so narrow, a bit as big as a pea would give...1928, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, chapter XV, in Lady Chatterley’s Lover, [Germany?]: Privately printed, →OCLC
  2. Small; inconsequential.
    • The great train snaked on through the dark, pounding out the miles through the empty plains and mingy hamlets of Georgia, the 'Peach State', the angry moan of its four-toned wind-horn soughing over the wide savannah and the long shaft of its single searchlight ripping the black calico of the night.1954, Ian Fleming, “Allumeuse”, in Live and Let Die, London: Pan Books, published 1957, page 115

Questions about mingiest

What is mingiest the superlative form of?
Mingiest is the superlative form of mingy.

Words near mingiest in the dictionary

  1. mingers
  2. minges
  3. Mingeses
  4. mingi
  5. mingier
  6. mingiest
  7. mingily
  8. minginess
  9. minging
  10. mingkulpa
  11. Minglanilla

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