Meanings
verb
- participlepastsimple past and past participle of scrimp
adjectivescrimped (comparative more scrimped, superlative most scrimped)
comparative more scrimped · superlative most scrimped
- pinched
She didn't want this girl with the thin, scrimped face of a scared rabbit to be herself. It was the face of someone Fraulein had made. A little girl out of an old story book. A little German girl with huge eyes.
1955, Don Marion Wolfe, Charles Irving Glicksberg, New Voices, volume 2, page 296
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