scrimp
pronunciation
How to pronounce scrimp in British English:
UK [skrɪmp]
How to pronounce scrimp in American English:
US [skrɪmp]
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- Verb:
- subsist on a meager allowance
Word Origin
- scrimp (v.)
- "to make too small," 1774, originally in English an adjective, "scant, meager" (1718), possibly from a Scandinavian source (compare Swedish skrumpna "to shrink, shrivel up," Danish skrumpen "shrunken, shriveled"), or from a continental Germanic source akin to Middle High German schrimpfen, German schrumpfen "to shrivel," from Proto-Germanic *skrimp-, from PIE root *(s)kerb- "to turn, bend." Related: Scrimped; scrimping.
Example
- 1. Which doesn 't mean scrimp on the clothes .
- 2. Only a small proportion ( 11 % of younger households ) have a mortgage , and those that do scrimp and save to try to pay it off in five years .
- 3. And yet the more they scrimp on investment , the more joblessness , especially among the young , will deepen japan 's sense of malaise .