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stinge out

stinge out verb: to be stingy or miserly.

Verb

stinge out (third-person singular simple present stinges out, present participle stinging out or stingeing out, simple past and past participle stinged out)

  1. (intransitive, slang) To be stingy or miserly.
    • In fairness to my decision concerning the pizza, I had stinged out on lunch to accommodate it and had it not been for the garlic bread starter I would have been okay for my lower limit.2014, Jon Chaddock, Killing Fat Softly: A Fistful of Calories

Forms of stinge out

third-person singular presentstinges out
present participlestinging out
present participlestingeing out
past participlestinged out
paststinged out

Questions about stinge out

What does stinge out mean?
Stinge out means to be stingy or miserly.
What part of speech is stinge out?
Stinge out is a verb.
What is the past tense of stinge out?
The past tense of stinge out is stinged out.

Words near stinge out in the dictionary

  1. stingaree
  2. stingarees
  3. stingbull
  4. stingbulls
  5. stinge
  6. stinge out
  7. stinged
  8. stinged out
  9. stinger
  10. stingerless
  11. stingers

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