See scrimp on Wiktionary
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"limit",
"limit"
],
[
"short",
"short"
],
[
"allowance",
"allowance"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive) To limit or straiten; to put on short allowance."
],
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]
},
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"English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1904, Mark Twain, The $30,000 Bequest:",
"text": "“Oh, Electra, jewel of women, darling of my heart, we are free at last, we roll in wealth, we need never scrimp again. It's a case for Veuve Cliquot!”",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2020, Brit Bennett, The Vanishing Half, Dialogue Books, page 334:",
"text": "They had to scrimp each month to afford it out of pocket.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To be frugal: to a reasonable and wise extent; to a miserly and unwise extent."
],
"links": [
[
"frugal",
"frugal"
],
[
"reasonable",
"reasonable"
],
[
"wise",
"wise"
],
[
"miserly",
"miserly"
],
[
"unwise",
"unwise"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(intransitive) To be frugal: to a reasonable and wise extent; to a miserly and unwise extent."
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "skimp"
}
],
"tags": [
"intransitive"
]
}
],
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"ipa": "/skɹɪmp/"
},
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},
{
"rhymes": "-ɪmp"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "skǎpja se",
"sense": "to be frugal",
"word": "скъпя се"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "guòdùsuōjiǎn",
"sense": "to be frugal",
"word": "过度缩减"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to be frugal",
"word": "matatoua"
}
],
"word": "scrimp"
}
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"English entries with incorrect language header",
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"English terms borrowed from Middle Low German",
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"English terms derived from Middle Low German",
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"Pages with 1 entry",
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"Terms with Mandarin translations",
"Terms with Maori translations",
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"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "dum",
"3": "-"
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"name": "bor"
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"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "gml",
"3": "schrimpen",
"t": "to shrivel up, wrinkle"
},
"expansion": "Middle Low German schrimpen (“to shrivel up, wrinkle”)",
"name": "bor"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "gem-pro",
"3": "*skrimpaną",
"t": "to shrink"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Germanic *skrimpaną (“to shrink”)",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "ine-pro",
"3": "*(s)ker-",
"t": "to cut off"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to cut off”)",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "ang",
"2": "sċrimman",
"t": "to shrink"
},
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"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "shrink",
"3": "shrimp",
"4": "shrim"
},
"expansion": "Doublet of shrink, shrimp, and shrim",
"name": "doublet"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Probably from Middle Dutch or Middle Low German schrimpen (“to shrivel up, wrinkle”), ultimately from Proto-Germanic *skrimpaną (“to shrink”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to cut off”), related to Old English sċrimman (“to shrink”) and sċrincan (“to shrivel up”). Doublet of shrink, shrimp, and shrim.",
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{
"form": "more scrimp",
"tags": [
"comparative"
]
},
{
"form": "most scrimp",
"tags": [
"superlative"
]
}
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"pos": "adj",
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{
"glosses": [
"Short; scanty; curtailed."
],
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[
"scanty",
"scanty"
],
[
"curtailed",
"curtailed"
]
]
}
],
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"ipa": "/skɹɪmp/"
},
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},
{
"rhymes": "-ɪmp"
}
],
"word": "scrimp"
}
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