mingy

Her life was her family and her 2 beautiful granddaughters, her 2 cats Mingy Moo and Gizmo and her lovely garden.

In Our Mutual Friend, written 27 years later, the old and destitute Betty Higden, who had been more than a mother to orphans and cast-off children, takes to vagabondage rather than seek sheker in a workhouse, preferring to die on her own terms, refusing the state's mingy solicitude.

You hear plenty of complaints about the president's mingy care and feeding of donors.

The base was a bit mingy with the biscuit and the cheesecake part had a texture which I wasn't so fond of, but after such a gorgeous meal, I really couldn't complain of faltering at that last hurdle.

Ensconced in the chambers of the Lord Commander of the Kingsguard, poring over the White Book which records the "name and deeds" of every knight who ever served (SoS 751), to find his own life "a rather scant and mingy thing" (SoS 753), he reflects that "[t]he world was simpler in those days [...] and men as well as swords were made of finer steel" (SoS 753; italics in original).

I WRITE in total disgust at our new government's handling of the VE Day celebrations and the mingy allowance of TV broadcast time allowed to show a new young generation just what freedom in Europe meant to those of us who lived through that war.

You get a mingy pounds 30 for each pic they print, and a mere couple of hundred for your first proper photoshoot.

Collective gasps of disbelief greeted the appearance of the 2.49pm-a mingy two-carriage mini that would have been outlawed on the BidstonWrexham line.

One artful image would prove to the Sophy Brophy Armours of this world that your loved ones' single mingy tragedy had been if not averted, then transcended.