scrimp

To be very frugal and sparing.

Scanty; narrow; deficient; contracted.

A niggard; a pinching miser.

To pinch or scant; limit closely; be sparing in the food, clothes, money, etc., of; deal sparingly with; straiten.

To be sparing in; narrow, straiten, stint, or contract, especially through a niggard or sparing use or allowance of something; make too small, short, or scanty; limit: as, to scrimp a coat, or the cloth for making it.

To be parsimonious or miserly: as, to save and scrimp.

Short; scanty; curtailed.

To make too small or short; to limit or straiten; to put on short allowance; to scant; to contract; to shorten.

A pinching miser; a niggard.

A pinching miser; a niggard.