Crossword-Solution: SCRIMP
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Scrimp | v. t. | To make too small or short; to limit or straiten; to put on short allowance; to scant; to contract; to shorten; as, to scrimp the pattern of a coat. |
| Scrimp | a. | Short; scanty; curtailed. |
| Scrimp | n. | A pinching miser; a niggard. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| SCRIMP | anagram | CRIMPS |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
ECZAEM
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with SCRIMP (5)
But I'll scrimp on everything from hairpins to shoes, and back again, including pretty collars, and gloves, and hats, until I've saved up another five hundred, and then I'll try it all over again, because I--can--write." From the depths of one capacious pocket the inquiring man took a small black pipe, from another a bag of tobacco, from another a match.
She had left her mother at home to scrimp and save, and by hook or by crook she had contrived to get a number of quite good things to wear.
The father, Archibald, died; the grandfather left nothing to the mother of Tobias and her children, but they were assisted with scrimp decency by the heirs.
Mistress Croale muttered something that sounded like a curse upon scrimp measure, and drew herself farther back into the corner, where she had seated herself on Fergus’s portmanteau.
Then it came out that Martha went down every morning to look after the soap-fat, and to scrimp in the house-keeping, and see that there was no food wasted.
Quotes with SCRIMP (2)
I think steak is the ultimate comfort food, and if you're going out for one, that isn't the time to scrimp on calories or quality.
I used to scrimp with Judy in one-room apartments.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 82 times in crossword archives (1952–2024).