A pinching miser; a niggard.

(transitive) To make too small or short. / (transitive) To limit or straiten; to put on short allowance. / (intransitive) To be frugal.

Short; scanty; curtailed.

simple past tense and past participle of scrimp

pinched

plural of scrimp

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of scrimp

present participle of scrimp

An amount saved little by little.

The state of being scrimp.