SCRIMP

v. a. n.

3 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
v.

To make too small or short; to limit or straiten; to put on short allowance; to scant; to contract; to shorten; as, to scrimp the pattern of a coat.

2.
a.

Short; scanty; curtailed.

3.
n.

A pinching miser; a niggard. [U.S.]


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