scrimping
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English[edit]
Verb[edit]
scrimping
- present participle and gerund of scrimp
Noun[edit]
scrimping (plural scrimpings)
- An amount saved little by little.
- 1910, Jack London, The Wit of Porportuk:
- The savings and scrimpings from the cold nights of all his years were ripe to be squandered.
- 2005, Wanda Coleman, The Riot Inside Me: More Trials & Tremors:
- In her efforts to transform me into the debutante I would never become, my mother spent her scrimpings on private piano, violin, and voice lessons.