scrimping
English
Verb
scrimping
Noun
scrimping (plural scrimpings)
- An amount saved little by little.
- Jack London
- 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.
- Jack London