mingiest
mingiest is the superlative form of mingy.
Meaning of mingy
Adjective
mingy (comparative mingier, superlative mingiest)
- 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
- 'And weren't you happy as an officer and a gentleman, when your Colonel was dead?'
- 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
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- What is mingiest the superlative form of?
- Mingiest is the superlative form of mingy.
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