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Thank you! I have encountered the word 'mingy' before:

Adj. 1. mingy - (used of persons or behavior) characterized by or indicative of lack of generosity; "a mean person"; "he left a miserly tip" miserly, tight, mean. stingy, ungenerous - unwilling to spend; "she practices economy without being stingy"; "an ungenerous response to the appeal for funds"

Definitions for 'mingey' are quite different. Think I better drop mingy from my vocabulary, just to be safe.

 

There is *mingy* as you rightly describe and there is also Minging/Ming...slightly different connotation but perfectly safe to use. It's pronounced with a hard *G*... I use ming/minging a lot. (You probably know the root word actually Cuz as you know loads of words...I think ming originally meant smelly. Still does but now encompasses so much more as well)

 

Wonder if 'manky' derives from there.

 

Minging is fine!.
As far as homeless people, UK have used 'down and out', 'vagrant' or 'dosser'. Don't know if any of those originated here or elsewhere. I just use 'homeless' as hopefully you can't go too far wrong and offend someone by saying that!.
As far as ghosts I have encountered only one where I was as sure as I could be it couldn't be explained. I was in a very old indoor stable block that had stalls the full length of the corridor where horses are tied up and a loose box at the far end. There was no one there as I was doing late nights. I went in the door and a horse whickered to me. I cursed and assumed the other girl hadn't turned all her horses out, picked up a headcollar, went down to the end stable and looked over the door. Nothing there. No horse any where near, nothing in the field behind. I remember standing there with my spine tingling holding this headcollar trying to process what's I was(n't) seeing. It was a friendly sound but really gave me the creeps.
Very similar set up to this photo but the bars on the stable at the end were only on the door not down the sides.

 

Ready for this. Just of late I'm hearing the term 'unhoused'.

 

God I need to stop posting without benefit of caffeine...I totally forgot *dosser*...I refused to acknowledge it in the early days as it sounds like the one beginning with T and then Fury started using it...cannot stand him :O

K yours was a lovely ghosty story xx