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scrimp

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6 lettersPronunciation /skɹɪmp/Part of speech verbSorted cimprsStarts with SEnds with P0 clues
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Definitions

  1. subsist on a meager allowance

Word origin

From Scots scrimp (“meager”), from Middle Dutch or Middle Low German schrimpen (“to shrivel up, wrinkle”), from Old Dutch *scrimpan, from Frankish *skrimpan, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *skrimpaną (“to shrink”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to cut off”), related to Old English sċrimman (“to shrink”) and sċrincan (“to shrivel up”). Doublet of shrink, shrimp, and shrim.

Used in a sentence

  • to scrimp the pattern of a coat
  • The company scrimped on the design so badly that it ended up defective.
  • For, as a general thing, the English merchant-ship scrimps her crew; but not so the English whaler.

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