▪ I. ˈskimping, ppl. a.
[f. skimp a. and v.]
Skimpy; marked by skimpiness.
| 1775 S. J. Pratt Liberal Opin. xcv. (1783) III. 193 Sir, what a skimping waistcoat is here! neither cut, nor turn, nor slope, nor figure. 1803 M. Charlton Wife & Mistress III. 213 He was downright tired of the Skimping out-of-the-way doings as is here. 1862 Sala 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.
| 1853 Lytton 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.
| 1898 A. 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. 1977 Hot Car Oct. 125/3 (Advt.), No skimping to cut cost. |