Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Scantiness; pinched appearance or state; smallness of allowance.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The state of being scrimp.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The state of being
scrimp .
Etymologies
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scrimp + -ness
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Examples
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Deliver thy conceptions from narrowness, thy charity from scrimpness, thy purposes from smallness.
The Jericho Road W. Bion Adkins
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