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stinging out

stinging out is the present participle and gerund of stinge out.

Meaning of stinge out

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

Questions about stinging out

What is stinging out the present participle and gerund of?
Stinging out is the present participle and gerund of stinge out.

Words near stinging out in the dictionary

  1. stinging
  2. stinging catfish
  3. stinging catfishes
  4. stinging nettle
  5. stinging nettles
  6. stinging out
  7. stingingly
  8. stingingness
  9. stingings
  10. stingless
  11. stingless bee

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Adapted from Wiktionary: stinging out (page history and authors); stinge out (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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