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Irish
Etymology
From sprionla + -ithe.
Adjective
sprionlaithe
- miserly, stingy, mean, niggardly, shabby
- beart sprionlaithe ― a mean act
- parsimonious
Synonyms
References
- ^ “sprionlaithe”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
- ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “sprinnlai(g)the”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
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