scrimping

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That auld capricious carlin, Nature, To mak amends for scrimpit stature, She’s turn’d you aff, a human creature On her first plan; And in her freaks, on every feature She’s wrote, the Man.

From The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham by Burns, Robert

I wad hae repentit lang syne gin I cud hae gotten ae glimp o' a possible justice in pittin a hert as grit's mine into sic a misgreein', scrimpit, contemptible body as this.

From Alec Forbes of Howglen by MacDonald, George

And if folks noticed we were scrimpit, why didn't they think about helping us?

From A Knight of the Nets by Barr, Amelia Edith Huddleston

"If ye're an unce, ye're twenty stane, quarry wecht; and everybody kens that's no scrimpit."

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Vol. 9 by Various

That auld, capricious carlin, Nature, To mak amends for scrimpit stature, She's turn'd you off, a human creature On her first plan, And in her freaks, on ev'ry feature She's wrote the Man.

From Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Burns, Robert