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Definition of Scrimpy
1. Adjective. Deficient in amount or quality or extent. "Meager fare"
Attributes: Adequacy, Sufficiency
Also: Scarce, Minimal, Minimum, Deficient, Insufficient
Similar to: Bare, Scanty, Spare, Exiguous, Hand-to-mouth, Hardscrabble, Measly, Miserable, Paltry
Antonyms: Ample
Derivative terms: Meagerness, Meagreness
Definition of Scrimpy
1. meager [adj SCRIMPIER, SCRIMPIEST] - See also: meager
Lexicographical Neighbors of Scrimpy
Literary usage of Scrimpy
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Publications by English Dialect Society (1882)
"scrimpy, adj. little, mean, poor. ... a scrimpy bit a har ; ' yours is a poor
lot of hair. Scrunch, v. to bite up quickly and noisily, as children do sweets ..."
2. A Glossary of the Lancashire Dialect by John Howard Nodal, George Milner (1875)
"... scrimpy, ) c. 45, says, " Dartmoor is not often scrimped with ... He 'ra little
scrimpy chap—moor loike a ..."
3. A Glossary of Words Used in Swaledale, Yorkshire by John Harland (1876)
"scrimpy, adj. little, mean, poor. ... a scrimpy bit a har ; ' yours is a poor
lot of hair. Scrunch, v. to bite up quickly and noisily ..."
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