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▪ I. ˈskimping, ppl. a.
[f. skimp a. and v.]
Skimpy; marked by skimpiness.
1775S. J. Pratt Liberal Opin. xcv. (1783) III. 193 Sir, what a skimping waistcoat is here! neither cut, nor turn, nor slope, nor figure. 1803M. Charlton Wife & Mistress III. 213 He was downright tired of the Skimping out-of-the-way doings as is here. 1862Sala Seven Sons I. vi. 125 A little milliner's girl in a skimping plaid shawl. 1889‘R. Boldrewood’ Robbery under Arms xxii, The miserable, scrambling, skimping life we had lately been used to.
Hence ˈskimpingly adv.
1853Lytton My Novel iii. xv, The Squire and his son Frank were large-hearted, generous creatures in the article of apology, as in all things less skimpingly dealt out.
▪ II. ˈskimping, vbl. n.
[f. skimp v. + -ing1.]
The action of the verb.
1898A. Beardsley Let. Jan. (1970) 425, I must try and boil the book down but it's so rich and full of chances that skimping would be a sin. 1977Hot Car Oct. 125/3 (Advt.), No skimping to cut cost. |