skimpedadj.
/skɪmpt/ = scrimped adj.
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the world > relative properties > quantity > insufficiency > [adjective] > limited in quantity or amount
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poor?c1225
scarce1297
straitc1386
feeblea1513
scant1556
niggardly1564
slender1564
limited1590
scanted1594
sparing1602
scantled1604
stinted1629
exiguous1630
unlavished1635
scanty1658
unprofuse1727
costivea1734
incopious1734
niggard1751
jimp1768
skimped1839
stingy1854
restricted1856
niggard-measured1881
1839 W. Carleton Fardorougha (1848) v. 55 Only your cothamore's too scimpit for me.
1860 M. Reid Hunters' Feast (new ed.) i Bradley's garments, on the contrary, were tight-fitting and ‘skimped’.
1884 Lang in Cent. Mag. Jan. 323/1 Stone walls can never seem so squalid and skimped as the London houses of dirty, yellowish brick.
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adj.1839