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单词 scrimp
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scrimpn.

Brit. /skrɪmp/, U.S. /skrɪmp/
Forms: 1800s– scrimp, 1900s– skrimp.
Origin: Probably formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: scrimp v.
Etymology: Probably < scrimp v. Compare earlier scrimp adj.
1. Scottish. Insufficiency, meagreness; = scrimpiness n. Obsolete. rare.
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the world > space > extension in space > measurable spatial extent > smallness > [noun] > skimpiness
scrimp1825
scrimpiness1829
skimpiness1879
1825 R. Chambers Illustr. Author of Waverley (ed. 2) vii. 199 He rooses her spinning, but canyells like daft 'Bout the length o' her warp and the scrimp o' her waft.
1925 E. C. Smith Mang Howes & Knowes 13 Caald flesh, pickit ingans, an nae skrimp o laif.
2. Originally Scottish. Chiefly with of. Something which is small, constrained, inconsiderable, or inadequate; a small quantity or amount of something.
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the world > relative properties > quantity > smallness of quantity, amount, or degree > [noun] > a small quantity or amount
speckc725
littleOE
somethingc1200
lutewihtc1230
little whatc1384
ouncec1387
lap1393
smalla1400
modicumc1400
nekedc1400
spota1413
tinec1420
nieveful?a1425
handfulc1443
mouthful?c1450
smatchc1456
weec1480
quern1503
halfpennyworth1533
groatsworth1562
dram1566
shellful1578
trickle1580
snatch1592
sprinkling1594
fleck1598
snip1598
pittance1600
lick1603
fingerful1604
modicum1606
thimbleful1607
flash1614
dasha1616
pipa1616
pickle1629
drachm1635
cue1654
smack1693
starn1720
bit1753
kenning1787
minikin1787
tate1805
starnie1808
sprat1815
harl1821
skerrick1825
smallums1828
huckleberry1832
scrimp1840
thimble1841
smite1843
nattering1859
sensation1859
spurt1859
pauchlea1870
mention1891
sketch1894
sputterings1894
scrappet1901
titch1937
tad1940
skosh1959
smattering1973
1840 I. Steward Interdict I. v. 85 They made me lie..cooped up in a scrimp of a settle without a night-cap or a bolster!
1885 Youth's Compan. 24 Dec. 555/2 There wasn't the leastest thing in it—not the leastest little mite of a scrimp!
1934 ‘L. G. Gibbon’ Grey Granite ii. 138 The lassie Ellen Johns in a scrimp of a nightie.
1983 N.Y. Mag. 3 Oct. 72/1 The West Side renaissance has provoked..only a scrimp of restaurants we dare to favor.
2002 S. D. Harrison Living on Edge of Respectability 142 This party for a scrimp of a guest of honor who is nearly two hours late.
3. Originally Scottish. The action or process of scrimping; shortage, meagre allowance; frugality.
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the mind > possession > retaining > niggardliness or meanness > [noun]
fastship?c1225
scarcenessa1300
scarcity1340
niggardyc1390
nithingheada1400
scarcehead1420
nigonryc1430
niggardship?a1439
pinching1440
straitheadc1450
straitnessc1460
niggard cheap1463
niggardnessc1487
nigonshipa1500
niggardise1502
niggishness1519
niggardliness1556
parsimony1561
illiberality1581
nearness1584
tenacity1586
Euclionism1599
paring1607
servilitya1610
niggeralitya1612
scanting1625
scant-handednessa1627
closefistedness1631
niggardess1632
close-handedness1646
strait-handedness1649
penury1651
unbountifulness1660
parsimoniousness1671
penuriousness1672
stinginess1682
closeness1712
illiberalness1727
meanness1755
cheeseparing1834
scrimping1835
churlishness1846
screwing1848
skinflintism1853
screwiness1856
flint-paring1860
skinflintiness1861
scrimp1864
flint-skinning1873
penny-pinching1895
skimping1898
tight-fistedness1975
1864 R. M. Ballantyne Let. 29 Jan. in E. Quayle Ballantyne the Brave (1967) viii. 169 I'm sorry to hear about the scrimp with cash. Use the money I sent you.
1921 H. MacGrath Pagan Madonna 213 Genteel poverty, a life of scrimp and pare.
1970 G. F. Newman Sir, You Bastard viii. 243 An existence without scrimp or worry.
2004 C. Reid How was it for You? (2008) xx. 199 How many people would be prepared to take on the work when there was never going to be any money in it, always just the scrimp and scrape to pay the mortgage?
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

scrimpadj.adv.

Brit. /skrɪmp/, U.S. /skrɪmp/
Origin: Of uncertain origin. Perhaps a borrowing from a Scandinavian language.
Etymology: Origin uncertain. Perhaps a borrowing from a Scandinavian language: compare Swedish skrympa (also skrumpa ) to shrink, contract, to shrivel, Danish regional skrympe (also Danish skrumpe ) to draw together, to shrivel, to shrink < the same Scandinavian base as Old Icelandic skreppa to slip, to slip away, cognate with Middle Dutch schrimpen to shrivel, wrinkle (Dutch schrimpen to melt, to shrivel, wrinkle, to shrink), Middle Low German schrimpen to wrinkle, screw up, to draw together, Middle High German schrimpfen to wrinkle, shrivel, wither, and further with shrimp n. and shrim v. Compare slightly later scrimp v.
Originally and chiefly Scottish.
A. adj.
1. Scant, slight, meagre.
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the world > space > extension in space > measurable spatial extent > smallness > [adjective] > skimpy
scrimp1681
skimp1775
skimping1775
scrimpy1829
skimpy1842
the world > relative properties > quantity > insufficiency > [adjective] > limited in quantity or amount > scanty or meagre
feeblec1275
straita1300
thinc1374
threadbarec1412
exile?1440
silly?a1500
pilled1526
thinnish1540
carrion-lean1542
carrion1565
exiled?1577
penurious1594
unnourishing1605
starveling1611
meagre1612
short-handed1622
lanka1644
scrimp1681
strigose1708
skimp1775
skimping1775
spare1813
shy1821
scrimping1823
skimpy1842
slim1852
scrappy1985
minnowy1991
1681 Brief Acct. His Sacred Majesties Descent 21 Ventorious, rather then Victorious Promise, hath been conceived a little scrimp of the common stile, Conjunctly, but not severally.
1694 tr. J. Brown Christ in Believers Hope of Glory 136 To measure the same [sc. the Gospel] by our scrimp natural Understandings.
1734 W. Crawford Short Man. against Infidelity Pref. 48 Our own Soul..is..too scrimp an Image to give us either a full or clear Representation of him.
1791 J. Learmont Poems Pastoral 47 Send our scrimp ell-wand owr the sea, To measure laws.
1854 H. Keddie Phemie Millar I. ii. 24 Mrs. Millar in a scrimp dark green woollen dress.
1876 S. Smiles Life Sc. Naturalist xviii. 386 Edward, though poor and scrimp of means, has always enjoyed a happy home.
1920 Scotsman 18 Sept. 9/2 The memoirs of the time are scrimp in the matter of Hart, considering his standing in Church and State.
1952 R. C. Hutchinson Recoll. of Journey xvii. 331 A city man by his appearance, scrimp and bald, as if he had grown old without growing up.
2014 M. Mitcham Justice Mine xvi. 105 Breakfast in the Congo had been a scrimp meal of fufu.
2. Sparing, parsimonious, frugal; mean, grudging.
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the mind > possession > retaining > sparingness or frugality > [adjective]
sparingc1386
savingc1440
husbandlya1450
husbandlike1542
spareful1565
chary1570
dainty1576
partial1576
spare1577
parsimonious?1591
spary1601
scant1603
wary1605
frugala1616
spare-handed1626
squeasy1628
canny1725
scrimp1728
scrimping1823
sparesome1864
stinting1867
hard-arsed1893
1728 A. Ramsay Poems II. 1 Are ye..of a Saul sae scrimp and rude, To envy every thing that's Good?
1822 J. Galt Sir Andrew Wylie I. vi. 46 Andra..is a warm-hearted creature, and would be o'er scrimp in the severities of justice.
1897 Westm. Gaz. 9 Nov. 1/3 Their scrimp management of the most lucrative investment in the world.
1904 ‘H. Foulis’ Erchie ii. 12 A flittin' dram's by-ordinar; ye daurna be scrimp wi't.
1972 D. Toulmin Hard Shining Corn 50 He's a bittie scrimp wi' the measure joog.
B. adv.
Scarcely, barely. Also: in a sparing or grudging manner. Obsolete.
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the world > relative properties > quantity > smallness of quantity, amount, or degree > [adverb] > barely, scarcely, only, or just
uneathc1200
scarcely1297
albusyc1325
onlepyc1350
anerly1381
barec1400
scarce1413
scantlyc1440
narrowlyc1450
scant1492
barelya1513
hardly?1532
faintly1544
nakedly1589
just1603
rawly1607
just1627
badly1715
scrimp1756
bare-weighta1763
scrimplya1774
jimp1814
jistc1820
1756 M. Calderwood Lett. & Jrnls. (1884) 326 The curtain..is made of a red stamped English stuff, which is scrimp three quarters wide.
?a1799 J. Burness Thrummy Cap (1804) 10 Ye hae scrimp two mile to gang.
1824 S. Ferrier Inheritance II. viii. 82 Not that he's come so far as to need it—for it's but scrimp six miles.
1873 A. G. Murdoch Lilts on Doric Lyre 100 It wisna scrimp dune, but baith haill and intack.
1928 Scots Mag. Feb. 348 Aboot the claes that cover us too scrimp.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

scrimpv.

Brit. /skrɪmp/, U.S. /skrɪmp/
Forms: 1600s scrimpted (past participle), 1700s– scrimp, 1800s skrimp.
Origin: Apparently formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: scrimp adj.
Etymology: Apparently < scrimp adj.
Originally Scottish.
1.
a. transitive. To keep poorly or meagrely supplied, esp. with food or money; to restrict the expenses or resources of; to stint, to deprive. Also reflexive.
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the mind > possession > supply > provide or supply (something) [verb (transitive)] > keep ill-supplied
to hold or keep (a person) shortc1425
strait1513
scant1565
starve1570
scantle1581
shorten1599
scant1600
scant1607
short1620
straiten1627
famish1667
limit1670
scrimp1691
under-furnish1694
stint1722
the world > food and drink > food > providing or receiving food > feed or nourish [verb (transitive)] > underfeed or restrict feeding
underfeed1659
scrimp1691
snape1847
1691 R. Douglas & G. Kellie Reg. Bibliotheck Dunblane in Bannatyne Misc. (1855) III. 245 Let the poor have it, though the chamber should be scrimpted.
1712 D. Symson Geneal. & Hist. Acct. Name of Stuart 74 He hath been scrimp'd and suppress'd by his Fathers Greatness and Authority.
1773 R. Fergusson Poems 117 At Hallow-fair, whare browsters rare..dinna scrimp ye o' a skair O' kebbucks frae their pantries.
1818 W. Scott Heart of Mid-Lothian ii, in Tales of my Landlord 2nd Ser. IV. 27 I trust you winna skrimp yoursell for what is needfu' for your health.
1886 Ld. Tennyson Locksley Hall Sixty Years After 31 There the Master scrimps his haggard sempstress of her daily bread.
1907 Lyceumite & Talent June 22/2 God scrimped him in a way o' hight.
1930 Scotsman 7 Mar. 8 They ought not to scrimp him either in regard to men or appliances.
1995 Sunday Times (Nexis) 15 Jan. We had not scrimped ourselves and the bill came to just over £40 a head.
b. intransitive. To be thrifty, parsimonious, or mean; to be frugal, to economize.
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the mind > possession > retaining > niggardliness or meanness > be niggardly or mean [verb (intransitive)]
spare1377
to lick one's knifec1400
chincha1425
pincha1425
stick1533
nig1559
to make pottage of a flintc1576
niggard1596
wretcha1598
niggardize1606
wire-draw1616
screw1820
skincha1825
scrimp1848
stinge1937
to pinch pennies (also a penny)1942
penny-pinch1945
1848 J. R. Lowell Biglow Papers 1st Ser. viii. 117 While we are saving and scrimping at the spigot, the government is drawing off at the bung.
1883 St. Louis Globe-Democrat 4 Aug. 6/2 The lower order [of economy] that scrimps and squeezes and regards everything doled out as something lost.
1909 N.Y. Observer 2 Sept. 313/2 The result of overwork in frequent but fruitless endeavors to scrimp on household expenses.
1967 J. Lennon & P. McCartney When I'm Sixty Four (song, perf. ‘The Beatles’) in Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band Every summer we can rent a cottage In the Isle of Wight If it's not too dear We shall scrimp and save.
1977 F. E. Vandiver Black Jack I. i. 20 He had scrimped beyond wisdom to save enough for an entire year.
2015 J. Scaravella & E. Petrini Nonna's House vii. 142 Though we had to scrimp and save for such luxuries, we were never short of food.
2. transitive. To restrict in amount; to use sparingly or thriftily; to dispose of briefly. In later use also: to gather or accumulate thriftily; to save.
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the mind > possession > retaining > sparingness or frugality > use sparingly or frugally [verb (transitive)]
sparec1000
spelec1175
to spare for14..
inch out1636
tape1721
to spin out1726
scrimpa1752
a1752 R. Erskine Serm. (1777) III. xxxvii. 81 We..shall endeavour, through grace, not altogether to scrimp or scroof over the matter.
1786 R. Burns Poems & Songs (1968) I. 251 For lake o' thee I scrimpmy glass.
1834 Tait's Edinb. Mag. New Ser. 1 726/2 Pensions and sinecures were now defensible By wisdom's rules; and who could think of scrimping 'em.
1875 Ld. Tennyson Queen Mary iii. iii. 142 Do not scrimp your phrase, But stretch it wider.
1925 Rotarian Nov. 44/3 I have had to be brief..in my treatment of this subject, and I dislike to scrimp it for I hold it close to my heart.
1977 W. H. Stahl et al. tr. Martianus Capella Marriage Philol. & Mercury in Martianus Capella & Seven Liberal Arts II. ix. 346 So as not to scrimp the wedding preparations.., Jupiter refused to be rushed.
2012 R. Newman Rebounders iv. 47 He scrimped the funds to pay his own way through a short executive program on finance.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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