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Scrimpy
is always a great word to know.
So is quincunx. Does it mean:
| a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal. |
| an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle. |
Collins
World English Dictionary
| 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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