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stingy

[stin-jee] / ˈstɪn dʒi /


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The website reported that people in Ireland and Scotland started carving faces onto turnips and potatoes to scare Stingy Jack and other spirits away from their homes.

From Fox News • Oct. 29, 2021

Stingy or not, why would the fathers or indeed their fathers have owned left-handed clubs in the first place?

From Golf Digest • Apr. 14, 2020

A Times editorial after his 2013 announcement lamented “Governor Cuomo’s Stingy Pardons.”

From New York Times • Dec. 31, 2018

Mount Si 63, Sammamish 0: Stingy Wildcats have not allowed a TD in first three quarters of first five games.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 29, 2012

Pinmei said slowly, almost in disbelief, “Scars of Stingy Rice?”

From "When the Sea Turned to Silver" by Grace Lin




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