Scrimp

Definition: Scrimp

Scrimp

Verb

1. Scratch and scrimp.

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SCRIMP

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Synonyms: Scrimp

Insufficiency

Meager, poor, thin, scrimp, sparing, spare, stinted; starved, starving; halfstarved, famine-stricken, famished; jejune.

Parsimony

Miser, churl, screw, skinflint, crib, codger, muckworm, scrimp, lickpenny, hunks, curmudgeon, Harpagon, harpy, extortioner, Jew, usurer; Hessian; pinch fist, pinch penny.

Shortness

Retrench, cut short, obtruncate; scrimp, cut, chop up, hack, hew; cut down, pare down; clip, dock, lop, prune, shear, shave, mow, reap, crop; snub; truncate, pollard, stunt, nip, check the growth of; foreshorten.

Adjective: short, brief, curt; compendious, compact; stubby, scrimp; shorn, stubbed; stumpy, thickset, pug; chunky, decurtate; retrousse; stocky; squab, squabby; squat, dumpy; little; curtailed of its fair proportions; short by; oblate; concise; summary.

Crosswords: Scrimp

Music

• Lobster & Scrimp [CD-SINGLE] [IMPORT] (reference)

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Expression using "scrimp": scrimp and save. Additional references.

Albanian

kursej (husband, lay up, put aside, reserve, save, save up, spare, store, thrift), koprrac (avaricious, cheese paring, churl, clam, close-fisted, curmudgeon, curmudgeonly, grasping, griping, mean, mingy, miser, money grubber, money-grubbing, muckworm, narrow, near, rapacious, saving, screwy, sharpener, skin, skinflint, stingy, tight-fisted, tightwad, turn-penny), dorështrënguar (avaricious, careful, close-fisted, grasping, large handed, mean, mingy, miserly, muckworm, parsimonious, penny-pinching, penurious, rapacious, saving, skinflint, snippy, tight, tight-fisted). (various references)

Arabic 

‏قتر (scant, skimp, stint), ‏تحمل الوضع الصعب, ‏طفف, ‏إقتصد (economize, eke out, manage, retrench, save, sock away, spare), ‏بخل (avarice, littleness, meanness, miserliness, scant, skimp, spare, stinginess, stint). (various references)

Bulgarian 

скъпя се (pinch, screw, skimp, stint). (various references)

Chinese 

节约过度 (Scrimped, Scrimping). (various references)

Czech

skrblit (stint), přehnanì šetřit. (various references)

Danish

bredholder (expander, fabric expanding device, spreader, temple, templet). (various references)

Dutch

schuin gegroefd. (various references)

Farsi 

نحیف (Frail, Gaunt, Haggard, Lean, Meager, Scant, Skimp, Skimpy, Slight, Spare), ناچیز (Inconsequential, Inconsiderable, Little, Meager, Negligible, Nugatory, Pelting, Peppercorn, Piddling, Poor, Runty, Straw, Teeny, Trifle, Trivial, Vain), قلیل (Scant, Scarce, Skimpy, Slender, Slight), تقلیل دادن (Attenuate, Cutback, Cutdown, Lessen, Weaken), خست کردن , امساک کردن , اندک (Lean, Light, Little, Low, Margin, Modicum, Paucity, Pinch, Scant, Scantling, Scarce, Scruple, Skimpy, Slight, Whit). (various references)

Finnish

levityslaite. (various references)

French

se serrer la ceinture, réduire (scale down), lésiner, être chiche, élargisseur, économiser. (various references)

German

sparen (conserve, economize, economize on, make savings, save, save up, saving, skimp, spare, stint), knapsen (be stingy, scrape), kargen (be grudging, be mean, be stingy, scrimp and save, stint), bemessen (allocate, appraise, calculate, rated), Ausbreitleiste, Ausbreiter. (various references)

Greek 

κολοβώ (snub, truncate), σμικρύνω (belittle, dwarf, razee), γλίσχροσ (exiguous, meager, meagre, scanty), μικρόσ (little, minor, petit, petty, piccaroon, piddling, puny, short, slight, small), εκτατήρας (eyelid forceps), ανεπαρκήσ (inadequate, inefficient, insufficient, scant, scanty, scrimpy), τσιγγουνεύω. (various references)

Hebrew 

לקמץ (be miserly, be stingy, economize, retrench, scant, skimp, stint). (various references)

Hungarian

szegényes (beggarly, grain of wheat in a bushel of chaff, Lenten, meagre, miserly, penurious, pitiable, pokey, poorish, poverty-stricken, scanty, scrimpy, skimpy, slender), szűkmarkú (avaricious, chary, churlish, close, miserly, pelting, shabby, skimpy), szűken mért (scrimpy, skimpy), spórolós (scrimpy, skimpy), krajcároskodó (penny wise, scrimpy, skimpy), hiányos (defective, deficient, gappy, imperfect, insufficient, meagre, scant, scanty, scrimpy, void, wanting), garasos (mingy, scrimpy, skimpy), fukar (avaricious, be stingy, cheese paring, mean, mingy, miserly, money-grubbing, scrimpy, shabby, skimpy, stingy, strait). (various references)

Italian

scampo (escape, way out), lesinare (grudge, haggle, skimp, stint). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

吝嗇る (to be stingy, to scrimp). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

けちる (to be stingy, to scrimp). (various references)

Korean 

긴축하십시�". (various references)

Manx

jannoo sonderys. (various references)

Pig Latin

impscray.(various references)

Portuguese

rolo alargador, restringar, reduzir (bate, boil down, curtail, cut, decrease, diminish, lessen, minify, minimize, reduce, restrict, retrench, scale, shorten, sink, skimp, slash, to reduce, weaken, wear down, write off), deficiente (bad, close-fisted, defective, deficient, faulty, lacking, low, meager, meagre, penurious, scanty, short, skimpy, under, wanting), cercear (curtail, restrict, retrench, skimp). (various references)

Russian 

скупой (cheese paring, churlish, close, close-fisted, curmudgeonly, griping, grudging, hard, hardfisted, mean, mingy, miserly, narrow, near, parsimonious, penny-pinching, penurious, scrimpy, skimpy, stingy, tight-fisted, ungenerous), скупиться (begrudge, pinch, skimp), скудный (bare, barren, exiguous, hand-to-mouth, hungry, jimp, lean, meager, meagre, penurious, scant, scanty, scarce, scrimpy, skimpy, slender, spare, sparing, thin, tight), ограничивать (bound, circumscribe, confine, constrain, delimit, determine, enclose, hedge, inclose, limit, narrow, pinch, qualify, restrain, restrict, scanting, set a limit, set bounds, specialize, stint, straiten, terminate). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

skučen (cramped, crowded, hidebound, incapacious, poky, restricted, stringent), osudan (inculpatory), biti štedljiv, škrt (avaricious, chary, close-fisted, grudging, hardfisted, mean, miser, miserly, parsimonious, penurious, scanty, scotch, scrimpy, skimpy, stingy, tight, tightfisted, tight-fisted). (various references)

Spanish

escatimar (be sparing off, curtail, cut down, give grudgingly, grudge, pinch, scant, skimp, spare, stint). (various references)

Swedish

spara (conserve, economize, lay aside, lay by, lay up, put aside, save, save up, saving, scrape, spare), snåla med (skimp, skimp on, stint), snåla (pinch, pinch oneself, scrape, skimp, sting), vara snål mot (stint), knussla med, knussla, breddhållare (temple, templet). (various references)

Turkish

yetersiz (defective, deficient, disqualified, exiguous, half-way, handicapped, inadequate, incapable, incommensurate, incompetent, inconclusive, inefficient, ineligible, insufficient, meager, meagre, poorly, powerless, scant, scanty, scrimpy, shoestring, short, skimp, skimpy, slender, slim, spare, unequal, unfit, unqualified, unsatisfactory, unsatisfied, unsatisfying), kısmak (abridge, attenuate, ax, axe, check, choke, choke back, choke off, curtail, cut back, cut down on, depress, diminish, draw in, economize, narrow, pare, pare down, pinch, put down, qualify, reduce, retrench, skimp, soften, stint, throttle, throttle down, tighten, turn down), eksik (defective, deficiency, deficient, gappy, imperfect, inadequate, incommensurate, incompetent, incomplete, insufficient, lacking, lame, less, minus, missing, missing part, out, ragged, scrimpy, short, shortfall, shy, sketchy, skimp, skimpy, wanting), cimrilik etmek (be stingy of smth., look twice at every penny, pinch, pinch and scrape, skimp), cimri (chary, cheapskate, cheeseparing, churlish, close, close-fisted, costive, hard-fisted, illiberal, light purse, long purse, mangy, mean, measly, mingy, miser, near, parsimonious, penny pincher, penurious, piker, pinchpenny, screw, scrimpy, Scrooge, shabby, shylock, skimp, skimpy, skin, skinflint, skinny, sordid, spare, stingy, tight, tight purse, tight-fisted, tightwad, ungenerous), az vermek (skimp, stint), az (a bit, contracted, few, hypo-, inconsiderable, insufficient, little, meager, meagre, poco, poor, scrimpy, seldom, shoestring, short, skimp, skimpy, slender, slim, small, spare, stingy, under). (various references)

Ukrainian

урізувати (ax, axe, castrate, curtail, lop away, lop off, pare, scant, shorten, truncate), скупитися (begrudge, scant, skimp). (various references)

Welsh

crintachu (skimp, stint). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "scrimp": scrimped, scrimper, scrimpers, scrimpier, scrimpiest, scrimping, scrimpit, scrimps, scrimpy. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Scrimp" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: schimp, Schrimpf, Scimp, scoim, scramp, scrump, scrumpy, Scrymby, strimp. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: crimps.

-1 letter: crimp, crisp, prims, prism, scrim, scrip.

-2 letters: cris, imps, mirs, pics, prim, rims, rips, simp, spic.

-3 letters: cis, imp, ism, mir, mis, pic, pis, psi, rim, rip, sic, sim, sip, sir, sri.

-4 letters: is, mi, pi, si.

+1 letter: scrimps, scrimpy, spermic.

+2 letters: comprise, crampits, crimpers, crimples, empirics, misprice, parecism, pumicers, sapremic, scrimped, scrimper, scrimpit.

+3 letters: campfires, camphires, compilers, compliers, comprised, comprises, comprizes, copremias, crimpiest, epicurism, impacters, impactors, imprecise, mispriced, misprices, parecisms, piclorams, picograms, premedics, primacies, prismatic, proclaims, proxemics, scrimpers, scrimpier, scrimping, spermatic, sympatric.

+4 letters: comparison, compositor, comprising, compromise, crumpliest, empiricism, empiricist, epicurisms, graphemics, hypocorism, imperfects, imprecates, isomorphic, manuscript, megasporic, microchips, micropores, microprism, micropyles, microscope, microscopy, microspore, mispricing, morphemics, paramedics, pharmacies, pharmacist, pictograms, practicums, pragmatics, princedoms, proscenium, puromycins, rampancies, recompiles, scampering, scrimpiest, semitropic, sophomoric, spermaceti, spermicide, supermicro.