scrimp

Plural: scrimps

Verb

Verb Forms: scrimped, scrimping, scrimps

To be very or overly thrifty; to economize.
subsist on a meager allowance
- "scratch and scrimp"
To make too small or short; to shortchange.
To limit or straiten; to put on short allowance.
To be frugal, whether to a reasonable and wise extent or to a miserly and unwise extent.

Noun

A pinching miser; a niggard.

Adj

Short; scanty; curtailed.

Examples

He had to SCRIMP on high-scoring tiles, making the most of common letters.
The company scrimped on the design so badly that it ended up defective.
to scrimp the pattern of a coat

Origin / Etymology

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.

Synonyms

skimp, stint, ;, contract, scant, shorten

Scrabble Score: 12

scrimp: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
scrimp: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
scrimp: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 15

scrimp: valid Words With Friends Word