scrimption

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English

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Etymology

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From scrimpt +‎ -ion.

Noun

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scrimption (plural scrimptions)

  1. (UK, dialect, archaic) A small portion; a little bit; a scrap.
    • 1859, Timothy Shay Arthur, Trials and Confessions of a Housekeeper, page 31:
      There's not a scrimption left - not so much as the full of a thimble.

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