different between meagre vs stinted

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?mi???/
• Rhymes: -i???(?)
• Hyphenation: mea?gre

Etymology 1

From Middle French maigre.

Noun

meagre (plural meagres)

1. Argyrosomus regius, an edible fish of the family Sciaenidae.
   • 1986, A. Wysoki?ski, The Living Marine Resources of the Southeast Atlantic, FAO Fisheries Technical Paper 178, page 48,

     Among more valuable species some of them are worth mentioning, especially littoral forms as: meagres and other croakers (Sciaenidae), grunters (Pomadasyidae), threadfins (Polynemidae), groupers (Serranidae), snappers (Lutjanidae) […] .

   • 2008, Arturo Morales-Muñes, Eufrasia Roselló-Izquierdo, 11: Twenty Thousand Years of Fishing in the Strait, Torben C. Rick, Jon M. Erlandson (editors), Human Impacts on Ancient Marine Ecosystems: A Global Perspective, page 261,

     It is striking that these represent meagres (Argyrosomus regius), a species never mentioned in classical texts.

   • 2011, John S. Lucas, Paul C. Southgate, Aquaculture: Farming Aquatic Animals and Plants, unnumbered page,

     Meagres (Argyrosomus regius, 230 cm, 103 kg) have been raised mainly in Spain, France and Italy.

Synonyms

• (Argyrosomus regius): salmon-basse, shade-fish, stone basse

Hypernyms

• (fish of family Sciaenidae): croaker, drum, drumfish, hardhead, sciaenid

Derived terms

• brown meagre (Sciaena umbra)

Translations

Further reading

• Argyrosomus regius on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Argyrosomus regius on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Argyrosomus regius on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

Etymology 2

From Middle English megre, borrowed from Anglo-Norman megre, Old French maigre, from Latin macer, macrum, from Proto-Indo-European *mh??rós. Cognate with Old English mæ?er (“meagre, lean”), Dutch mager (“lean”), German mager (“lean”), Icelandic magur (“lean”).

Alternative forms

• meager (US)

Adjective

meagre (comparative meagrer, superlative meagrest) (British spelling) (Canadian spelling, common)

1. Having little flesh; lean; thin.
   • 1597, William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, Act 5, Scene 1, 1843, William Shakespeare, Samuel Weller Singer (notes), Charles Symmons (life), The Dramatic Works and Poems, Volume 2, page 462,

     […] meagre were his looks; / Sharp misery had worn him to the bones:

2. Deficient or inferior in amount, quality or extent

   Synonyms: paltry, scanty, inadequate

   • 1871, John Lothrop Motley, The Rise of the Dutch Republic: A History, Volume 1, page 144,

     His education had been but meagre.
3. (set theory) Of a set: such that, considered as a subset of a (usually larger) topological space, it is in a precise sense small or negligible.
4. (mineralogy) Dry and harsh to the touch (e.g., as chalk).

Derived terms

• meagrely
• meagreness

Descendants

• Jamaican Creole: mawga

Translations

Verb

meagre (third-person singular simple present meagres, present participle meagring, simple past and past participle meagred)

1. (transitive) To make lean.
   • 1862, Robert Thomas Wilson, Herbert Randolph (editor), Life of General Sir Robert Wilson, page 275,

     I am meagred to a skeleton; my nose is broiled to flaming heat, and I am suffering the greatest inconvenience from the loss of my baggage which I fear the enemy have taken with my servant at Konigsberg.

Anagrams

• Graeme, meager

English

Adjective

stinted (comparative more stinted, superlative most stinted)

1. (dated) Constrained; restrained; confined.
   • c.1846-1848, Charles Dickens, Dombey and Son, Chapter 14: Paul grows more and more Old-fashioned, and goes Home for the Holidays,

     Neither Mr Toots nor Mr Feeder could partake of this or any other snuff, even in the most stinted and moderate degree, without being seized with convulsions of sneezing.

   • 1853, Currer Bell (Charlotte Brontë), Villette, Chapter XXVI: A Burial,

     Mr. Home himself offered me a handsome sum—thrice my present salary—if I would accept the office of companion to his daughter. I declined. I think I should have declined had I been poorer than I was, and with scantier fund of resource, more stinted narrowness of future prospect.

   • 1890, Jacob Riis, How the Other Half Lives, Chapter XIII: The Color Line in New York,

     Nevertheless, he has always had to pay higher rents than even these for the poorest and most stinted rooms.

Verb

stinted

1. simple past tense and past participle of stint

Anagrams

• dentist, distent