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Hungarian
Etymology
Borrowed from German schmutzig (“dirty”), used to denote stingy in certain Bavarian and Austrian dialects.[1]
Pronunciation
Adjective
smucig (comparative smucigabb, superlative legsmucigabb)
- (colloquial) stingy, miserly
- Synonyms: fösvény, fukar, szűkmarkú, zsugori
- A főnököm annyira smucig, hogy még öt év után sem akar fizetésemelést adni! ― My boss is so stingy that even after five years he doesn't want to give me a raise!
1926, Zsigmond Móricz, chapter 30, in Kivilágos kivirradtig, Budapest: Athenaeum:Hogyha pazarol: bőkezű, hogyha smucig: bölcs nemzetgázdá…- If he wastes money: he is generous, if he is stingy: he is a wise economist…
Declension
References
Further reading
- smucig in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
- Pusztai, Ferenc (ed.). Magyar értelmező kéziszótár (“A Concise Explanatory Dictionary of Hungarian”). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2003. 2nd, expanded and revised edition →ISBN. Online searchable version (under development)
- smucig in Tótfalusi, István. Magyar etimológiai nagyszótár (’Hungarian Comprehensive Dictionary of Etymology’). Budapest: Arcanum Adatbázis, 2001; Arcanum DVD Könyvtár →ISBN
- smucig in Zaicz, Gábor (ed.). Etimológiai szótár: Magyar szavak és toldalékok eredete (’Dictionary of Etymology: The origin of Hungarian words and affixes’), Second, revised and expanded edition, Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2021, →ISBN. (See also the PDF of its 1st edition.)