Skimp

Definition: Skimp

Skimp

Verb

1. Work hastily or carelessly; deal with inadequately and superficially.

2. Limit in quality or quantity.

3. Scratch and scrimp.

4. Supply sparingly, with a meager allowance.

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

Synonyms: Skimp

Crosswords: Skimp

Expressions using "skimp": skimp on ♦ skimp over. Additional references.

Albanian

pajis keq, bëj shkel-e-shko (bungle, fumble, scamp). (various references)

Arabic 

‏هزيل (exiguous, gaunt, haggard, lean, meager, meagre, miserable, peak, peaky, pitiful, scanty, scrawny, short, sickly, sketchy, skimpy, skinny, slender, slight, slim, spare, sparing, stingy, watery, wretched), ‏قتر (scant, scrimp, stint), ‏عمل بتعجل (scamp), ‏ضيق جدا (skintight), ‏دخر (enshrine, fund, garner, hoard, husband, lay by, lay up, put aside, put by, reserve, save, set, set apart, set aside, siphon, sock away, spare, stash, store), ‏بخل (avarice, littleness, meanness, miserliness, scant, scrimp, spare, stinginess, stint). (various references)

Bulgarian 

скъпя се (pinch, screw, scrimp, stint), не давам достатъчно, живея пестеливо, икономисвам (economize, observe economy, save, scant, scrape). (various references)

Czech

škudlit (pinch and scrape, scrimp and save), šetřit (retrench, save up, set aside, spin out, stretch). (various references)

Farsi 

نحیف (Frail, Gaunt, Haggard, Lean, Meager, Scant, Scrimp, Skimpy, Slight, Spare), کم دادن (Scant, Stint), کم (Infrequent, Junior, Light, Little, Low, Marginal, Rare, Remote, Scant, Scanty, Scarce, Scrimpy, Slender, Slight, Small), غیرکافی (Inadequate, Incompetent, Scanty, Short), خسیسانه دادن . (various references)

French

trop juste, rogner, maigre (skimpy, skinny), lésiner, faire � la va-vite, économiser. (various references)

German

knausern (be mean, be stingy, pinch, scrape, stint). (various references)

Greek 

τσιγγουνεύομαι (begrudge). (various references)

Hebrew 

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

Hungarian

fukarkodik (be miserly, scrimp, to screw, to scrimp, to skimp, to stint), felületesen csinál (scrimp, to huddle things, to huddle things together, to huddle things up). (various references)

Italian

lesinare (grudge, haggle, scrimp, stint). (various references)

Manx

jannoo dy moal chooishagh. (various references)

Pig Latin

impskay.(various references)

Portuguese

ser sovina, ser econômico, restringir (abridge, astrict, bind, check, confine, contract, cork, cramp, curb, hedge, inhibit, limit, manacle, narrow, put a lid on, qualify, restrain, restrict, retrench, scant, specialize), reduzir (bate, boil down, curtail, cut, decrease, diminish, lessen, minify, minimize, reduce, restrict, retrench, scale, scrimp, shorten, sink, slash, to reduce, weaken, wear down, write off), cercear (curtail, restrict, retrench, scrimp). (various references)

Romanian

zgârcenie (avarice, cheese paring, closeness, costiveness, covetousness, miserabliness, parsimony, stinginess), drãmui. (various references)

Russian 

скудно снабжать. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

biti škrt. (various references)

Spanish

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

Swedish

snåla med (scrimp, skimp on, stint), snåla (pinch, pinch oneself, scrape, scrimp, sting). (various references)

Thai

ใช้น้อยเกินไป. (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, scrimpy, shoestring, short, skimpy, slender, slim, spare, unequal, unfit, unqualified, unsatisfactory, unsatisfied, unsatisfying), kıt (close, constricted, droughty, exiguous, few, lean, limited, meager, meagre, penurious, scant, scanty, scarce, scrimpy, short, skimpy, stingy), 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, scrimp, 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, scrimp, scrimpy, short, shortfall, shy, sketchy, skimpy, wanting), cimrilik etmek (be stingy of smth., look twice at every penny, pinch, pinch and scrape, scrimp), 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, scrimpy, Scrooge, shabby, shylock, skimpy, skin, skinflint, skinny, sordid, spare, stingy, tight, tight purse, tight-fisted, tightwad, ungenerous), az vermek (scrimp, stint), az (a bit, contracted, few, hypo-, inconsiderable, insufficient, little, meager, meagre, poco, poor, scrimp, scrimpy, seldom, shoestring, short, skimpy, slender, slim, small, spare, stingy, under). (various references)

Ukrainian

убогий (bald, bare, gimp, jimp, pokey, poking, poky, poverty stricken, poverty-struck, scant, scanty, scraggy, starveling, stingy, wretched), скупитися (begrudge, scant, scrimp), робити недбало (slur), бути скупим (be miserly), пагано забезпечувати. (various references)

Welsh

crintachu (scrimp, stint). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "skimp": skimped, skimpier, skimpiest, skimpily, skimpiness, skimpinesses, skimping, skimps, skimpy. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Skimp" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Ikimi, schimp, scim, Scimp, scisp, simp, skamp, skelp, skemp, skimb, skimm, skimo, skimy, skinp, skiph, skipp, Slimp, Sokambi, swimp, zimp. (additional references)

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

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: imps, kips, simp, skim, skip, spik.

-2 letters: imp, ism, kip, mis, pis, psi, sim, sip, ski.

-3 letters: is, mi, pi, si.

+1 letter: skimps, skimpy.

+2 letters: imparks, milksop, miskeep, miskept, muspike, skimped.

+3 letters: bumpkins, limpkins, milksops, miskeeps, misspeak, misspoke, muspikes, pumpkins, rampikes, skimpier, skimpily, skimping.

+4 letters: chipmucks, chipmunks, miniparks, misspeaks, misspoken, skimpiest.

+5 letters: bumpkinish, mapmakings, miskeeping, mispackage, mudskipper, shrimplike, skepticism, skimpiness.