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Word: Chinchy
Speech Type: Adjective
Etymology:
late Middle English; earliest use found in Thomas Hoccleve (c1367–1426), poet and clerk. From chinch + -y
Definition:
Miserly, stingy; ungenerous, mean. Also of a thing: small in size, meagre.
Variant Forms:
- chincy
- chinsy
- chintzy
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