scrimp

Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

1) Short; scanty.--Webster.


2) A pinching miser; a niggard; a close-fisted person.--Webster.

TO SCRIMP

3) To contract; to shorten; to make too small or short; to limit or straiten; as, 'to scrimp the pattern of a coat.' This, as well as the previous words, are in common use in New England.--Webster. Used in the north of England.--Brockett.

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