scrimpとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA: /skɹɪmp/
• 韻: -ɪmp

名詞

scrimp (plural scrimps)

1. A pinching miser; a niggard.

同意語

• See also Thesaurus:miser

動詞

scrimp (third-person singular simple present scrimps, present participle scrimping, simple past and past participle scrimped)

1. (transitive, sometimes with on) To make too small or short; to shortchange.

   Synonyms: scant, contract, shorten; skimp

   to scrimp the pattern of a coat

   The company scrimped on the design so badly that it ended up defective.

2. (transitive) To limit or straiten; to put on short allowance.
   • 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:

     For, as a general thing, the English merchant-ship scrimps her crew; but not so the English whaler.

   • 1886, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, “Locksley Hall Sixty Years After”, in Locksley Hall Sixty Years After etc., London; New York, N.Y.: Macmillan and Co., →OCLC, page 31:

     There the Master scrimps his haggard sempstress of her daily bread, / There a single sordid attic holds the living and the dead.

3. (intransitive) To be frugal, whether to a reasonable and wise extent or to a miserly and unwise extent.

   Synonyms: skimp, scrape by

   • 1904, Mark Twain, The $30,000 Bequest‎:

     “Oh, Electra, jewel of women, darling of my heart, we are free at last, we roll in wealth, we need never scrimp again. It's a case for Veuve Cliquot!”

   • 2020, Brit Bennett, The Vanishing Half, Dialogue Books, page 334:

     They had to scrimp each month to afford it out of pocket.

派生語

• scrimp and save
• scrimp together
• scrimper

形容詞

scrimp (comparative more scrimp, superlative most scrimp)

1. Short; scanty; curtailed.

参照

アナグラム

• crimps