scrimping

1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of scrimp

plural scrimpings

1. An amount saved little by little.

   The savings and scrimpings from the cold nights of all his years were ripe to be squandered.

   1910, Jack London, The Wit of Porportuk

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   In her efforts to transform me into the debutante I would never become, my mother spent her scrimpings on private piano, violin, and voice lessons.

   2005, Wanda Coleman, The Riot Inside Me: More Trials & Tremors