different between skimp vs simp

English

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /sk?mp/
• Rhymes: -?mp

Etymology 1

Perhaps of North Germanic origin, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *skimpijan?. Cognate with Icelandic skimpa (“to scoff at, scorn”), German schimpfen (“to grumble, scold”), Dutch schimpen (“to mock, make fun of, scold”).

Verb

skimp (third-person singular simple present skimps, present participle skimping, simple past and past participle skimped)

1. (Scotland, Northern England) To mock, deride, scorn, scold, make fun of.

References

• The Dictionary of the Scots Language

Etymology 2

Probably related to scamp and scrimp.

Verb

skimp (third-person singular simple present skimps, present participle skimping, simple past and past participle skimped)

1. (transitive) To slight; to do carelessly; to scamp.
2. To make insufficient allowance for; to scant; to scrimp.
3. (intransitive) To save; to be parsimonious or stingy.

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:skimp.

Related terms

• skimpily
• skimpy

Translations

Adjective

skimp (comparative more skimp, superlative most skimp)

1. (dated, Britain, dialect or US, colloquial) Scanty.

Noun

skimp (plural skimps)

1. A skimpy or insubstantial thing, especially a piece of clothing.
   • 2007, George Ella Lyon, With a Hammer for my Heart, p. 192:

     I remembered how fierce it hurt and how it blistered. All that pain from just a skimp of flesh.

2. (in the plural, colloquial) Underwear.
   • 2007, Zoo Today:

     While presenting a rundown of the sexiest soap stars in the world in this week's ZOO, Hollyoaks' Gemma Atkinson very kindly stripped down to her skimps herself.

Further reading

• Oxford English Dictionary, 1884–1928, and First Supplement, 1933.

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s?mp/
• Rhymes: -?mp

Etymology 1

Clipping of simpleton.

Noun

simp (plural simps)

1. (slang) A simple person lacking common sense; a fool or simpleton.
   • 1946, Mezz Mezzrow and Bernard Wolfe, Really the Blues, Payback Press 1999, page 59:

     Pimps and simps would fall in from here and there and everywhere, grabbing thousand-dollar advances from the madames and leaving their lady friends in pawn.

   • 1981, Philip K. Dick, Valis, ?ISBN, page 105

     Groggy from my nap I turn on the TV and try to watch.... Morons and simps appear in the screen, drool like pinheads and waterheads....
2. (slang, by extension) Someone who is not worthy of respect.

Etymology 2

Unknown; possibly from a respelled clipping of sympathetic, a clipping of simper, a portmanteau of sissy and pimp, or by relation to simpleton (above).

Noun

simp (plural simps)

1. (slang) A man who foolishly overvalues and defers to a woman, putting her on a pedestal.
   • 2012, Dennis Jeanpierre, Tito Fresh, Step Your Game Up: Dating and Relationship Guide for the Urban Man

     Until you are sure that this girl has a genuine interest and might be compatible, no dates or gifts. Why should you be the one who feeds every straggler in your town? It's time to break away from these byzantine patterns of square behavior. It's time right now to break away from all those years of bad programming. You're a simp because your family made you that way.
2. (slang, by extension) Someone who foolishly overvalues someone else and defers to them, putting them on a pedestal.
3. (slang) An advocate for an ideology or cause.

Verb

simp (third-person singular simple present simps, present participle simping, simple past and past participle simped)

1. (intransitive, slang, of a man) To be especially deferential to and emotionally vulnerable with a woman, often with the intent of receiving sexual gratification.
   • 2013, TravieBASED, Whats Wrong With Simping?

     Dudes wanna talk down on other dudes when they start simping like they're feminine or something when in fact the majority of all dudes and even those motherfuckers saying that shit be simping too.

   • 2018, T.y (@Ty_Brazil), Tweet.

     G why is simping becoming so popular ? It’s nothing wrong with treating your lady nice , but some of these niggas out straight simping

   • 2018, Penny the Petty Pest (@PineappleGC), Tweet.

     Yall be simping in bitches DMs, then trying them on the tl then getting shocked why u getting aired out.

2. (intransitive, slang, by extension) To obsequiously praise or admire.
3. (intransitive, slang, by extension) To reminisce melancholically; to recall once fond memories now tinged with sadness, especially regarding a former lover.
   • 2018, mimi (@splendamami), Tweet.

     the dick can't be that good honey stop simping over that boy

   • 2017, Jody Tran, Spotify playlist *simps in vietnamese*

     i dedicate this playlist to all my hoes who want to simp in viet. this takes u on an adventure to the modern angsty world of vietnam. this is where we can get into all our feels culturally. we all gonna mfking be CRYING IN THE VIETNAMESE CLUB!!

   • 2016, @jakedeee, Spotify playlist Simping

     If I think about my ex while I listen to this playlist, you should too.

Related terms

• simpering

References

Etymology 3

Clipping of simplified.

Adjective

simp (comparative more simp, superlative most simp)

1. Abbreviation of simplified.

Anagrams

• IMSP, IPMs, MIPS, PIMs, PMSI, imps, imps., spim