stingy

Etymology 1

Uncertain, possibly from stinge, a dialectal variation of sting (verb).

adj

1. Unwilling to spend, give, or share; ungenerous; mean
   "Well, I'm doing my best to grow," said Davy, "but it's a thing you can't hurry much. If Marilla wasn't so stingy with her jam I believe I'd grow a lot faster." 1909, Lucy Maud Montgomery, chapter XVIII, in Anne of Avonlea
2. Small, scant, meager, insufficient
   As the moon wheels around Earth every 28 days and shows us a progressively greater and then stingier slice of its sun-lightened face, the distance between the moon and Earth changes, too. At the nearest point along its egg-shaped orbit, its perigee, the moon may be 26,000 miles closer to us than it is at its far point. 7 September 2014, Natalie Angier, “The Moon comes around again [print version: Revisiting a moon that still has secrets to reveal: Supermoon revives interest in its violent origins and hidden face, International New York Times, 10 September 2014, p. 8]”, in The New York Times

Etymology 2

sting + -y

adj

1. (informal) Stinging; able or inclined to sting.
   Bumble bee – Bumble bee / I send to you this sonnet, / But please don't be – Bumble bee / The stingy bee in my bonnet. 2015, Kelvin Smith, Four Little Soldiers, page 33