scrimpt

plural scrimpts

1. UKarchaicdialectalA small amount.

   A scrimpt quorum

   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

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   He gangs about sornen frae place to place, As scrimpt of manners as of sense and grace.

   1808, John Jamieson, An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language ... to which is Prefixed, a Dissertation on the Origin of the Scottish Language