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PRONUNCIATION OF STINGIES

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF STINGIES

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Stingies is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE STINGIES

sting
sting in the tail
sting operation
stingaree
stingbull
stinger
stingier
stingiest
stingily
stinginess
stinging
stinging hair
stinging nettle
stinging tree
stingingly
stingingness
stingless
stingo
stingray
stingy

WORDS THAT END LIKE STINGIES

allergies
analogies
anthologies
apologies
baggies
buggies
energies
genealogies
ideologies
longies
methodologies
mythologies
orgies
pathologies
piggies
strategies
synergies
technologies
trilogies
veggies

Synonyms and antonyms of stingies in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «stingies» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF STINGIES

Find out the translation of stingies to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of stingies from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «stingies» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

stingies
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

stingies
570 millions of speakers

English

stingies
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

stingies
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

stingies
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

stingies
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

stingies
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

stingies
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

stingies
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Pengawal
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

stingies
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

stingies
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

stingies
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Stingies
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

stingies
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

stingies
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

कपाट
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

stingies
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

stingies
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

stingies
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

stingies
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

stingies
30 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Greek

stingies
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

stingies
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

stingies
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

stingies
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of stingies

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «STINGIES»

The term «stingies» is used very little and occupies the 182.868 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «STINGIES» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «stingies» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «stingies» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about stingies

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «STINGIES»

Discover the use of stingies in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to stingies and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
The Love Crisis: Hit-and-Run Lovers, Jugglers, Sexual ...
Are you one of the millions of single (and even sometimes married) women wondering, “What is wrong with men today?” If so, The Love Crisis is the field guide to contemporary males that you’ve been waiting for.
Carol Botwin, 2011
2
Global Perspectives on Rural Childhood and Youth: Young ...
Another favourite pastime was, and still is to an extent, 'stingy bashing',which involves scything down ranks of stingies witha stick,oreven better some sharp instrument (e.g. longor short handled hook). Stingies sting, they are enemies.
Ruth Panelli, Samantha Punch, Elsbeth Robson, 2007
3
Shakespeare My Butt!
He eventually emerged, with the ball and so many 'stingies' in his mouth that I was stung when I took it off him but I gave him the benefit of the doubt on this. Ball bouncing on head and hidden 'stingies' were both accidents. No specialist ...
John Donoghue, 2008
4
Tempted Women: The Passions, Perils, and Agonies of Female ...
She is the author of SEX AND THE TEENAGE GIRL, THE LOVE CRISIS: Hit and Run Lovers, Jugglers, Sexual Stingies, Kinkies and Other Typical Men Today, TEMPTED WOMEN: The Passions, Perils and Agonies of Female Infidelity, MEN WHO CAN’T BE ...
Carol Botwin, 2011
5
Ramon, the Rover of Cuba, and Other Tales
... says my aunt Kezia to me, says she, Jonathan, now you're going to Portland, to get aboard of a vessel and go off to the Stingies, where there are mountains of sugar and rivers of molasses. Now, I want you, says she, to bring me home all the  ...
‎1843
6
The Comic Almanack: An Ephemeris in Jest and Earnest, ...
How do the Gentlemen do after marriage P- Oh, then nothing pleases 'em, But everything tenses 'em ; Then they're grumbling and snarling — You're a "fool" not a "darling ;" Though they're rich as the Ingies, They re the stingiest of stingies ...
William Makepeace Thackeray, Albert Smith, Gilbert Abbott À Beckett, 1853
7
THE HISTORY OF THE HEN FEVER. A Humorous Record.
asked the mariner. " ' One egg? Why, where did it come from? ' asked the hen- fancier. 11 l E Stingies,' replied the mariner. " l Domestic fowl's egg ? ' " 'Domestic' <" Let's see it.' " The sailor produced an enormous egg, weighing about a pound.
GEO. P. BURNHAM, 1865
8
Bullied by the Boss
If I did have a time machine, after trying to save as many of those German women as I could, I'd find the author of the ̳Sticks and Stones' chant and throw them headfirst in a thicket of stingies. They've obviously never had hives. And, as they  ...
Eva James
9
The Afflicted Girls: A Novel of Salem
Meanwhile big-bellied beggar Sarah Good, eight months pregnant, swooped down and snatched up that Good Book and dangled it by its cover in front of the midwife's nose. Not to keep R or to read, but to barter: "You Stingies have plenty.
Suzy Witten, 2009
10
Penny readings in prose and verse, selected and ed. by J.E. ...
Oh ! then nothing pleases 'em, But everything teazes 'em, Then they're grumbling and snarling — You're a " fool," not a " darling ;" Though they're as rich as the Ingics, They're the stingiest of stingies ; And what is so funny, They've never got ...
Penny readings, Joseph Edwards Carpenter, 1866

3 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «STINGIES»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term stingies is used in the context of the following news items.
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From Judas to Midas: His Name is Suarez, He Wears the Famous Red
This means that derisory offers like Arsenal's bid in the summer will get kicked into the stingies. You'll need at least £80m plus a quid now, Arsène. Liverpool will ... «This Is Anfield, Dec 13»
2
This is what friends are for...
Following on from yesterday's bite-fest, remember that the post only included selfies, and that photographing selfie-stingies can be difficult. It's not easy to contort ... «Scientific American, Sep 13»
3
Chelsea and Manchester City are St. Louis-bound
Chelsea and Manchester City, who would be duking it out right now for the English Premier League crown if the stingies from Manchester United weren't ... «NBCSports.com, Mar 13»

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Stingies [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/stingies>. May 2024 ».
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