scrimplyadv.

1690 J. Sage in Acct. Present Persecution Church Scotl. ii. 48 He allowed and invited all People to accuse their Pastors, and give in what Indictments they pleas'd against them; that this was not done scrimply neither, nor out of mere form.

1724 A. Ramsay Health 19 Nor scrimply save from what's to Merit due.

1820 London Mag. June 631/1 Hump-backed giglots, scrimply arrayed in two guineas worth of trumpery British muslin.

1864 J. Brown Jeems 5 Nature..had finished off the rest of Jeems somewhat scrimply, as if she had run out of means.

1910 A. R. H. Moncrieff London 297 Never except that once would I treat a cabman so scrimply.

1935 W. D. Cocker Further Poems 80 Whiles it's but scrimply they fen'.

2007 A. Theroux Laura Warholic xlix. 819 All you weasels have gone and stolen 70 percent more of the meager land already scrimply ceded them in 1948.

a1774 R. Fergusson Poems Var. Subj. (1779) 48 Content eneugh gif they hae wherewithal Scrimply to tack their body and their saul.

1786 R. Burns Poems & Songs (1968) I. 104 Down flow'd her robe, a tartan sheen, Till half a leg was scrimply seen.

1813 E. Picken Misc. Poems I. 98 Soud ye kick up an' slip awa', They'll scrimply find anither As guid.

1873 Contemp. Rev. 21 432 It is a cheap and easy course, but scrimply honest.

1900 E. M. Strain Elmslie's Drag-net 223 It's scrimply half-six yet.