skimped, ppl. a.
(skɪmpt)
Also 9 scimpit.
[Cf. skimp v.]
= scrimped ppl. a.
| 1839 Carleton Fardorougha v. (1848) 55 Only your cothamore's too scimpit for me. 1860 Mayne Reid Hunters' Feast 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. |