mingy

adjective /ˈmɪndʒi/

1. Mean, miserly, stingy.

   The dark girl tossed her hat on the bed and hastily produced a packet of cigarettes from her bag, lighting and inhaling one with a deep exhalation of relief, saying, "Thank God for a cigarette! It's the only thing I will thank the mingy old blighter for."

2. Small; inconsequential.

   The great train snaked on through the dark, pounding out the miles through the empty plains and mingy hamlets of Georgia, the 'Peach State', the angry moan of its four-toned wind-horn soughing over the wide savannah and the long shaft of its single searchlight ripping the black calico of the night.

Where it comes from

Uncertain. Perhaps a blend of mean + stingy.

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry mingy (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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