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— English words —

• skimp v. (Scotland, Northern England) To mock, deride, scorn, scold, make fun of.
• skimp v. (Transitive) To slight; to do carelessly; to scamp.
• skimp v. To make insufficient allowance for; to scant; to scrimp.
• skimp v. (Intransitive) To save; to be parsimonious or stingy.
• skimp adj. (Dated, UK, dialect or US, colloquial) Scanty.
• skimp n. A skimpy or insubstantial thing, especially a piece of clothing.
• skimp n. (In the plural, colloquial) Underwear.

— English word, defined in French —

• skimp v. Lésiner.

37 English words from 7 English definitions

allowance carelessly clothing colloquial Dated deride dialect England especially for fun insubstantial insufficient Intransitive make make␣fun␣of mock Northern parsimonious piece piece␣of␣clothing plural save scamp scant Scanty scold scorn Scotland scrimp skimpy slight stingy the thing Transitive Underwear

1 foreign word from the foreign definition

Lésiner

16 suffixes (New words found by adding one or more letters at the end of the word.)

skimps skimpy skimped skimper skim␣pit skimpers skimpier skimpies skimpily skimping skim␣pits skimpiest skimpiness skimpingly skimp␣and␣save skimpflation

One time in the middle (New word found by adding letters in front and at the end of the word.)

unskimpy

8 words-in-word (Words found as is inside the word. Minimum size 3 letters.)

imp IMP imp. Imp. Kim ski -ski skim

One word-in-word RTL (Word found written from right to left, inside the word. Minimum size 3 letters.)

PMI

5 anagrams found with an extra letter (New words formed with all the letters from the word and an extra letter.)

klimps poskim skimps skimpy skrimp

20 anagrams found minus a letter (New words formed with all the letters from the word minus a letter.)

imps imps. IMSP IPMs Kims kips Kips KPIs MIPs MIPS PIMs PIMS PMSI simp SIMP skim skip Skip spik spim

6 cousins (New words found by changing only one letter.)

Shimp skimo 'skimo skims Skipp srimp

5 lipograms (New words found when removing only one letter.)

simp SIMP skim skip Skip

One epenthesis (New word found when adding only one letter.)

skrimp

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