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verb (used without object)
1.
to be sparing or frugal; economize (often followed by on): They scrimped and saved for everything they have. He spends most of his money on clothes, and scrimps on food.
verb (used with object)
2.
to be sparing or restrictive of or in; limit severely: to scrimp food.
3.
to keep on short allowance; provide sparingly for: to scrimp their elderly parents.
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Origin:
1710–20; < Scandinavian; compare Swedish skrympa, Norwegian, Danish skrumpe (orig. *skrimpa, strong v.) to shrivel, cognate with Middle High German schrimpfen to contract; see shrimp
1710–20; < Scandinavian; compare Swedish skrympa, Norwegian, Danish skrumpe (orig. *skrimpa, strong v.) to shrivel, cognate with Middle High German schrimpfen to contract; see shrimp
Related forms
un·scrimped, adjective
Synonyms
1. skimp, stint, save, scrape.
1. skimp, stint, save, scrape.
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| scrimp (skrɪmp) | |
| —vb (when intr, | |
| 1. | to be very economical or sparing in the use (of) (esp in the phrase scrimp and save) |
| 2. | (tr) to treat meanly: he is scrimping his children |
| 3. | (tr) to cut too small |
| —adj | |
| 4. | a less common word for scant |
| [C18: Scottish, origin unknown] | |
| 'scrimpy | |
| —adj | |
| 'scrimpily | |
| —adv | |
| 'scrimpiness | |
| —n | |
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Word Origin & History
scrimp
"to make too small," 1774, originally an adj., "scant, meager" (1718), possibly from a Scand. source (cf. Swed. skrumpna "to shrink, shrivel up"), or from a continental Gmc. source akin to M.H.G. schrimpfen, Ger. schrumpfen "to shrivel" (cf. shrimp).
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