2. Verb. (third-person singular of scrimp) ¹
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Definition of Scrimps
1. scrimp [v] - See also: scrimp
Lexicographical Neighbors of Scrimps
Literary usage of Scrimps
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Selection of Leading Cases on Various Branches of the Law: With Notes by John William Smith (1840)
"... affirming' the validity of a marriage would always be admissible here, inasmuch
as marriage is a fact proveable by reputation; (»ee scrimps/tire v. ..."
2. The Textile Colourist (1876)
"... stretched out so as to avoid " scrimps," and giving plenty of head room over
the vats to ensure a perfect oxidation before it is banded up on the floor. ..."
3. The Cry for Justice: An Anthology of the Literature of Social Protest; the by Upton Sinclair (1915)
"There among the gloomy alleys Progress halts on palsied feet; Crime and hunger
cast out maidens by the thousand on the street; There the master scrimps his ..."
4. The People of the Abyss by Jack London (1903)
"There among the gloomy alleys Progress halts on palsied feet, Crime and hunger
cast our maidens by the thousand on the street ; There the master scrimps his ..."
5. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1825)
"... (I dinna like the woman, she scrimps me o' my milk) passed upon it, videlicet,
as the Dominie says, ..."
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