scrimp
/skɹɪmp/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.99 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
1
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "to scrimp the pattern of a coat"
- "The company scrimped on the design so badly that it ended up defective."
- "For, as a general thing, the English merchant-ship scrimps her crew; but not so the English whaler."
- "There the Master scrimps his haggard sempstress of her daily bread, / There a single sordid attic holds the living and the dead."
- "“Oh, Electra, jewel of women, darling of my heart, we are free at last, we roll in wealth, we need never scrimp again. It's a case for Veuve Cliquot!”"
- "They had to scrimp each month to afford it out of pocket."
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.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: scrimp, -, schrimpen, *scrimpan, *skrimpan, *skrimpaną
Usage
Inflected Forms
scrimps (plural)
scrimps (present, singular)
scrimping (participle, present)
scrimped (participle, past)
scrimped (past)
more scrimp (comparative)
most scrimp (superlative)