scrimpy
Americanadjective
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scanty; meager; barely adequate.
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tending to scrimp; frugal; parsimonious.
Other Word Forms
- scrimpily adverb
- scrimpiness noun
Etymology
Origin of scrimpy
Example Sentences
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The kids went off to school with scrimpy breakfasts.
From Time Magazine Archive
A new scrimpy spirit is most noticeable in direct efforts to conserve gas and other fuels, but it is also emerging in the other routine logistics of daily living.
From Time Magazine Archive
Did he suppose that seven scrimpy scraps of bacon was her notion of a lunch between four hungry persons?
From They and I by Jerome, Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka)
Molly opened it, and there stood Miss Browning, in a wonderful erection of a nightcap, and scantily attired in a coloured calico jacket over her scrimpy and short white petticoat.
From Wives and Daughters by Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn
From the scrimpy legs of the knickerbockers his knees shone bare and brown.
From Two Little Travellers A Story for Girls by Arthur, Frances Browne
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