Definitions
lacking in magnitude or quantity
Word origin
From scant + -y.
Used in a sentence
“A girl dressed in scanty clothing”
“To share, with ill-concealed disdain, / Of Scotland's pay the scanty gain.”
“Present on the table, one scanty pot of tea, one scanty loaf, two scanty pats of butter, two scanty rashers of bacon, two pitiful eggs, and an abundance of handsome china bought a secondhand bargain.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Barely enough”6 letters
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