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scrimp

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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
scrimp/skrɪmp/

▶verb be thrifty or parsimonious; economize.

– origin C18 (in the sense ‘keep short of food’): from Scots scrimp ‘meagre’; perh. rel. to shrimp.

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