scrimption
English edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
scrimption (plural scrimptions)
- (UK, dialect, archaic) A small portion; a little bit; a scrap.
- 1859, Timothy Shay Arthur, Trials and Confessions of a Housekeeper, page 31:
- There's not a scrimption left - not so much as the full of a thimble.
References edit
- Robert Forby (1830) The Vocabulary of East-Anglia etc, volume 2, page 291
- Dialect Notes, volume 3, 1905, page 547
- “scrimption”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.