Scrimpy

Definition: Scrimpy

Scrimpy

Adjective

1. Barely adequate; "a meager allowance".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonym: Scrimpy

Albanian

i vogël (baby, diminutive, exiguous, Ling, little, one horse, paltry, peripheral, petit, petty, pimping, pocket-size, poky, reckling, scant, scanty, scarce, small, trivial, undersized), i pakët (exiguous, few, lean, limited, little, low, marginal, meager, meagre, measly, modest, narrow, picayune, poor, scant, scanty, scarce, skimpy, slender, small, spare, sparing, thin, wee). (various references)

Arabic 

‏زهيد (cheap, paltry, piddling, poor, scanty, small, trivial), ‏ضيق (bottleneck, canyon, choke, close, contract, cramped, hardship, incommodious, malaise, narrow, narrowness, need, oppression, parochial, pinch, shrink, slit, straiten, straits, strict, succinctness, tag, tight, tighten, tightness). (various references)

Bulgarian 

тесен (choky, close, cramped, incommodious, jimp, narrow, parochial, pokey, skimpy, strict, tight, tight-fitted), къс (brief, cob, fraction, fragment, fritter, jimp, length, little, morsel, patch, piece, portion, short, skimpy, slip, slipping), оскъден (beggarly, exiguous, insufficient, jejune, lean, meager, meagre, penurious, scant, scanty, scarce, short, skimpy, skinny, spare, sparing, starveling, stingy, thin, tight), направен през пръсти (skimpy). (various references)

Czech

sporý (chunky, scanty, spare, stocky, thickset). (various references)

Farsi 

ناکافی (Scant), کم (Infrequent, Junior, Light, Little, Low, Marginal, Rare, Remote, Scant, Scanty, Scarce, Skimp, Slender, Slight, Small), خسیس (Hard, Hidebound, Miserly, Penurious, Scotchman, Skimpy, Skinflint, Sordid, Stingy, Stringent, Tight, Ungenerous). (various references)

French

microscopique, étriqué. (various references)

German

knapp (almost, bald, bare, barely, barely sufficient, close, concise, concisely, crisp, curtly, just, just enough, laconic, laconically, lean, low, meager, meagre, narrow, pithy, rare, scantily, scantly, scanty, scarce, scarcely, short, skimpily, skimpy, slender, stinted, summarily, taut, tautly, terse, tersely, tight, tightly). (various references)

Greek 

ανεπαρκήσ (inadequate, inefficient, insufficient, scant, scanty, scrimp), τσιγγούνικοσ. (various references)

Hebrew 

קמצ� י (mean, miserly, parsimonious, skimpy, tight, tightfisted). (various references)

Hungarian

fukar (avaricious, be stingy, cheese paring, mean, mingy, miserly, money-grubbing, scrimp, shabby, skimpy, stingy, strait). (various references)

Pig Latin

impyscray.(various references)

Portuguese

sovina (mingy, miser, scraper, skimpy, skinflint, stingy), avarento (avaricious, close-fisted, curmudgeonly, hunks, iron-fisted, mean, miser, miserly, parsimonious, penurious, scraper, skimpy, skinflint, stingy, tight, tight-fisted), acanhado (backward, demure, diffluent, gauche, hidebound, narrow, poky, poor-spirited, scary, shamefaced, sheep-faced, sheepish, shy, skimpy, timid). (various references)

Russian 

скупой (cheese paring, churlish, close, close-fisted, curmudgeonly, griping, grudging, hard, hardfisted, mean, mingy, miserly, narrow, near, parsimonious, penny-pinching, penurious, scrimp, skimpy, stingy, tight-fisted, ungenerous), скудный (bare, barren, exiguous, hand-to-mouth, hungry, jimp, lean, meager, meagre, penurious, scant, scanty, scarce, scrimp, skimpy, slender, spare, sparing, thin, tight). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

škrt (avaricious, chary, close-fisted, grudging, hardfisted, mean, miser, miserly, parsimonious, penurious, scanty, scotch, scrimp, skimpy, stingy, tight, tightfisted, tight-fisted). (various references)

Spanish

escaso (bare, insufficient, limited, little, low, lower, meager, meagre, mingy, poor, scant, scanty, scarce, short, shy, skimpy, slender, slight, slim, small, sparing, sparse, thin, tight, tightfisted, ungenerous), avaro (avaricious, close-fisted, grasper, grasping, grudging, miser, miserly, money grubber, money-grubbing, parsimonious, penurious, tight-fisted, tightwad). (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, scrimp, shoestring, short, skimp, skimpy, slender, slim, spare, unequal, unfit, unqualified, unsatisfactory, unsatisfied, unsatisfying), kıt (close, constricted, droughty, exiguous, few, lean, limited, meager, meagre, penurious, scant, scanty, scarce, short, skimp, skimpy, stingy), eksik (defective, deficiency, deficient, gappy, imperfect, inadequate, incommensurate, incompetent, incomplete, insufficient, lacking, lame, less, minus, missing, missing part, out, ragged, scrimp, short, shortfall, shy, sketchy, skimp, skimpy, wanting), 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, scrimp, Scrooge, shabby, shylock, skimp, skimpy, skin, skinflint, skinny, sordid, spare, stingy, tight, tight purse, tight-fisted, tightwad, ungenerous), az (a bit, contracted, few, hypo-, inconsiderable, insufficient, little, meager, meagre, poco, poor, scrimp, seldom, shoestring, short, skimp, skimpy, slender, slim, small, spare, stingy, under). (various references)

Ukrainian

скупий (chary, cheeseparing, churlish, clam, close-fisted, covetous, gripping, grudging, hard-fisted, illiberal, mean-spirited, mingy, miserly, narrow, near, nigh, parsimonious, penny-pinching, saving, scant, screwy, skimpy, snippy, split-farthing, stingy, tight-fisted), недостатній (defective, deficient, meager, meagre, poor, scarce, short, skimpy, wanting). (various references)

Vietnamese 

keo kiệt (iron-fisted, miserly, near, skimpingly, stingy), bủn xỉn (close-fisted, hard-fisted, meanly, miserly, penurious, skimpingly, skimpy). (various references)

Misspellings

"Scrimpy" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Schrimpf, scrumpy, Scrymby. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: crimps, crimpy, crispy, scrimp.

-2 letters: crimp, crisp, pricy, prims, prism, pyric, scrim, scrip, spicy, spiry.

-3 letters: cris, imps, mirs, miry, pics, prim, pyic, rims, rimy, rips, scry, simp, spic, spry, yips.

-4 letters: cis, cry, icy, imp, ism, mir, mis, pic, pis, pry, psi, rim, rip, sic, sim, sip, sir, spy, sri, yip.

-5 letters: is, mi.

+2 letters: sympatric.

+3 letters: hypocorism, micropyles, microscopy, puromycins.

+4 letters: hypermnesic, hypocorisms, hypodermics, hypsometric, imprecisely, microphylls, patronymics, plyometrics, promiscuity, pyromancies, pyromaniacs, symposiarch.

+5 letters: chymotrypsin, compulsorily, cryptarithms, cryptomerias, cryptorchism, cypripediums, microphysics, polycentrism, polychromies, psychometric, streptomycin, symposiarchs.