Meaning

1 senses

  1. A pinching miser; a niggard.

Examples

4 sentences

  1. Tom always scrimps on groceries to save money.

    Том завжди купує дешеві харчі, щоб зекономити гроші. — deniko · CC BY 2.0 FR

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  2. Don't scrimp on your health.

    На здоров'ї не економлять. — MaxUA

    deKnausere nicht, wenn es um deine Gesundheit geht. — mramosch

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  3. The group had to scrimp, connive, and hustle in order to get by.

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  4. The family tried to save money by scrimping on food to the detriment of their own health.

    ruСемья пыталась сэкономить деньги на еде, что отрицательно сказалось на здоровье её же членов. — shanghainese

    deDie Familie versuchte, Geld zu sparen, indem sie beim Essen geizte, was ihrer Gesundheit abträglich war. — Yorwba

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Origin

From Scots scrimp (“meager”), from Middle Dutch or Middle Low German schrimpen (“to shrive

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.

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Forms

plural: scrimps
Singularscrimp
Pluralscrimps

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