Lexicographical Neighbors of Scrimply
Literary usage of Scrimply
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Parochial Law by Alexander Dunlop (1830)
"The present system of our Poor Laws does not include what are called the industrious
poor, any more than the case of widows who are scrimply provided, ..."
2. The Complete Works of Robert Burns (self-interpreting) by Robert Burns (1886)
"scrimply, scantily, barely. Half a leg was scrimply seen. Scroggie, covered with
underwood. Amang the braes so scroggie. ..."
3. The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors by Charles Wells Moulton (1902)
"... portraying her as "A tight outlandish hizzie braw;" and continuing the picture
thus— "Down flowed her robe, a tartan sheen, Till half a leg was scrimply ..."
4. All the Year Round: A Weekly Journal by Charles Dickens (1869)
"... Till half a log was scrimply soon, And such a leg ! My bonnie Jean Alone could
peer it ! As regards health, grace, and agility, we have but to ask ..."
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