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English
Noun
scrimpt (plural scrimpts)
- (UK, dialect, archaic) A small amount.
1808, John Jamieson, An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language ... to which is Prefixed, a Dissertation on the Origin of the Scottish Language:He gangs about sornen frae place to place, As scrimpt of manners as of sense and grace.
1857, Thomas Wright, Dictionary of Obsolete and Provincial English, Containing Words from the English Writers Previous to the Nineteenth Century ... and Words which are Now Used Only in the Provincial Dialects, Volume 2, page 832:A scrimpt quorum
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