Associations to the word «Scrimp»
Wiktionary
SCRIMP, noun. A pinching miser; a niggard.
SCRIMP, verb. (transitive) To make too small or short; to scant; to contract; to shorten.
SCRIMP, verb. (transitive) To limit or straiten; to put on short allowance.
SCRIMP, verb. (intransitive) To be frugal.
SCRIMP, adjective. Short; scanty; curtailed.
SCRIMP AND SAVE, verb. (idiomatic) To scrimp greatly; to economize; to live very frugally, particularly when saving for something.
Dictionary definition
SCRIMP, verb. Subsist on a meager allowance; "scratch and scrimp".
Wise words
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