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Today's word, it's a good word. I love this word. It is chintzy, chintzy, c -h -i -n -t -z -y, chintzy.
that guy is chintzy don't be chintzy you are so chintzy.
what does it mean to be chintzy?
if you are chintzy then you are cheap.
you're like a miser M is er the scrooge do you know the scrooge?
you're very stingy s t i n g y you do not like Take to use your money.
You don't want to spend your money.
That's the idea. If somebody calls you chintzy, you don't like to spend money.
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Umm... I'll give you fifty cents each time you take out the garbage.
What? Don't be so chintzy, Dad.
Whoa! my dad gave me fifty cents so I'm giving you fifty cents dad that was like fifty years ago yeah my dad no joke gave me about fifty cents when I was a kid if I wanted to get any money I had to work around the house which is good I think that's a good thing but yeah my dad paid me super low wages I mean it was like I don't know very bad I remember when I was up Fun till maybe 14 or 15 years old every week my dad gave me five dollars That was it five dollars.
Maybe I was up to 15 years old yeah, maybe five dollars a week and And I had to work.
I mean I had to take out the trash every day I had to do the yard work.
You know cutting the lawn and weeding the garden shoveling the snow lots of work and my dad paid me really really really low wages not slave labor but pretty close so yeah this is what happens dad's sometimes our chinsi was your dad Chintzy or is your dad chintzy when it comes to giving you money what about your husband or wife if you ask for some money to go, I don't know, shopping to go out with your friends, is here she Chincey, and do they not like to give you their money.
Now, we can also use Chincey to describe the quality of a product.
So if the quality is really bad, if it's a really low price, like, you know, like the dollar store, something's in the dollar store, or the euro store, or you know, the cheap stores.
Some things are okay but some things are really chintzy.
They're very cheap and they have very bad quality.
I have lots of chintzy things.
When I started out with my computers and starting out on YouTube videos, I'll be honest, I used kind of chintzy equipment.
It wasn't that I was cheap.
I just didn't have the money and I wasn't sure what to do.
But we all have been chintzy once or twice.
I'm sure. And leave your example down below or wherever you can leave your example.
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I'll give you fifty cents each time you take out the garbage.
What? Don't be so chintzy dad woah my dad gave me 50 cents so I'm giving you 50 cents Dad that was like 50 years ago um I'll give you 50 cents each time you take out the garbage what don't be so chintzy dad whoa my dad gave me 50 cents so I'm giving you 50 cents dad that was Like 50 years ago.