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Definition of Stinter
1. Noun. An economizer who stints someone with something.
Definition of Stinter
1. n. One who, or that which, stints.
Definition of Stinter
1. Noun. One who, or that which, stints. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Stinter
1. one that stints [n -S] - See also: stints
Lexicographical Neighbors of Stinter
Literary usage of Stinter
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1851)
"A niggard, a stinter, a selfish man, an unsocial man, ho despiseth. None take a
joke with more good will than he. No man is moro sincerely happy to see his ..."
2. A Glossary: Or, Collection of Words, Phrases, Names, and Allusions to by Robert Nares, James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, Thomas Wright (1872)
"... Cries old Sym, the king of stinkers. B. Jons, Verses at Ihf Apollo, vii, p.
295. I must be stinter then, let me alone, They all shall want, ..."
3. The Complete Works of Joshuah Sylvester: For the First Time Collected and by Josuah Sylvester, Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas, Odet de La Noue, Henry Smith (1880)
"Even like unto the sad and wofull Winter, Who (soon as ever the bright season-stinter
Hath left her widow of his wonted raies, Whil'st to another world hee ..."
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