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Definition of Scrimp
1. Verb. Subsist on a meager allowance. "Scratch and scrimp"
Definition of Scrimp
1. v. t. To make too small or short; to limit or straiten; to put on short allowance; to scant; to contract; to shorten; as, to scrimp the pattern of a coat.
2. a. Short; scanty; curtailed.
3. n. A pinching miser; a niggard.
Definition of Scrimp
1. Noun. A pinching miser; a niggard. ¹
2. Verb. (transitive) To make too small or short; to scant; to contract; to shorten. ¹
3. Verb. (transitive) To limit or straiten; to put on short allowance. ¹
4. Verb. (intransitive) To be frugal. ¹
5. Adjective. Short; scanty; curtailed. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Scrimp
1. to be very or overly thrifty [v -ED, -ING, -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Scrimp
Literary usage of Scrimp
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Dictionary of English Synonymes and Synonymous Or Parallel Expressions by Richard Soule (1891)
"... churl, sordid wretch, money-grubber, screw, scrimp, pinch-fist. Miserable, a.
I. Unli.ippy (as respects tkf condition of the ..."
2. Dictionary of Americanisms: A Glossary of Words and Phrases Usually Regarded by John Russell Bartlett (1860)
"... limit or straiten ; as, " to scrimp the pattern of a coat." Colloquial in
England and in the United States. scrimpING. Scanty; close; parsimonious. ..."
3. Report and Transactions (1875)
"[About Looe such an apple would be called a crumpling. WP] Willan—"scrimp.
To spare; to scant; short; scanty." Eng. Dial. Soc. B. 7. ..."
4. Report and Transactions of the Devonshire Association for the Advancement of (1875)
"Old age don't scrimp one single bliss." p. 37. ... For lack o' thee I scrimp my
glass." Lines written on a Bank N Halliwell—" scrimp. To spare ; to pinch. ..."
5. Glossary of Northamptonshire Words and Phrases by Anne Elizabeth Baker (1854)
"Brockett gives the verb scrimp, " to spare, to scant; " the adjective, " short,
... The Devonshire Glossarist has also scrimp, " a skin-flint, a miser. ..."
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