penny-wise vs stingy

penny-wise

adj
  • Thrifty in regards to small amounts of money. 

stingy

adj
  • Small, scant, meager, insufficient 

  • Stinging; able or inclined to sting. 

  • Unwilling to spend, give, or share; ungenerous; mean 

How often have the words penny-wise and stingy occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )