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scrimp

UK/skɹɪmp/ US/ˈskrɪmp/ uncommon

verb

1.

subsist on a meager allowance

  • “scratch and scrimp”
Synonyms

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.

Phrases

  • scrimp and save
  • scrimp together

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