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skimpily
English
Etymology
skimpy +? -ly
Adverb
skimpily (comparative more skimpily, superlative most skimpily)
- In a skimpy manner.
- 2013, Julian Sher, Somebody's Daughter
- No flashy dressers, skimpily dressed starlets, or celebrities stepping out of stretch limos. Instead, on a warm Friday evening in June 2009, one hundred protestors sang prayers, chanted slogans, and carried signs […]
- 2013, Julian Sher, Somebody's Daughter
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skimp
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)
- (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)
- (transitive) To slight; to do carelessly; to scamp.
- To make insufficient allowance for; to scant; to scrimp.
- (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)
- (dated, Britain, dialect or US, colloquial) Scanty.
Noun
skimp (plural skimps)
- 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.
- 2007, George Ella Lyon, With a Hammer for my Heart, p. 192:
- (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.
- 2007, Zoo Today:
Further reading
- Oxford English Dictionary, 1884–1928, and First Supplement, 1933.
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