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English
Etymology
Blend of scrimpt + portion.
Noun
scrimption (plural scrimptions)
- (UK, dialect, archaic) A small portion; a little bit; a scrap.
1859, Timothy Shay Arthur, Trials and Confessions of a Housekeeper, page 31:There's not a scrimption left - not so much as the full of a thimble.
References
- Robert Forby (1830) The Vocabulary of East-Anglia etc, volume 2, page 291
- Dialect Notes, volume 3, 1905, page 547
- William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E Smith, editors (1911), “scrimption”, in The Century Dictionary , New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.