scrimply, adv.
(ˈskrɪmplɪ)
[f. scrimp a. + -ly2.]
1. In a niggardly, parsimonious manner.
| 1724 Ramsay Health 364 Nor scrimply save from what's to merit due. a 1728 ― Miser & Minos 6 He..scrimply fed on Crumbs and Water. 1864 J. Brown Jeems 5 Nature..had finished off the rest of Jeems somewhat scrimply, as if she had run out of means. |
2. Barely, scarcely.
| 1786 Burns Vision i. xi, Down flow'd her robe, a tartan sheen, Till half a leg was scrimply seen. 1873 Contemp. Rev. XXI. 432 It is a cheap and easy course, but scrimply honest. |