Stingy
WordNet
adjective
(1) Deficient in amount or quality or extent
"Meager resources"
"Meager fare"
(2) Unwilling to spend
"She practices economy without being stingy"
"An ungenerous response to the appeal for funds"
WiktionaryText
Etymology 2
Uncertain, possibly from *stinge, a dialectical variation of
Adjective
- Extremely close and covetous; meanly avaricious; niggardly; miserly; penurious; as, a stingy churl.