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Definitions
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.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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