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Definition of Skimps
1. skimp [v] - See also: skimp
Lexicographical Neighbors of Skimps
Literary usage of Skimps
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Journal of Psychology by Edward Bradford ( Titchener, Granville Stanley Hall (1922)
"The selection proved peculiarly difficult, because Henning skimps many parts of
the prism in his lists of representative odors. ..."
2. Harper's New Monthly Magazine by Henry Mills Alden (1874)
"The member who saves, shaves, and skimps most is the best fellow and the chief
saint ;" and these she compares to the Congressional "Econo- mites" who ..."
3. The Italian Emigration of Our Times by Robert Franz Foerster (1919)
"To quench his thirst at the alluring cascade of gold, the emigrant skimps
sustenance, toils in perilous, congested, unsanitary workplaces, braves all unfit ..."
4. A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Obsolete Phrases, Proverbs by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1850)
"SKIMPING. Scanty, said of dress when cut too short or narrow for the person.
South. skimps. The scales and refuse of flax detached in dressing it. Somerset. ..."
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