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Chintzy

Parf of speech: Adjective, OED Year: 1851, OED Evaluation: N/A

suburban, unfashionable, petit-bourgeois, cheap; mean, stingy.

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Because I collect dragon statues, and I have a lot of little chintzy ones from the dollar store that people see and go, "Oh you collect these, so I bought eight of them for you, they are a set, they cost eight dollars."
Small, petty