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Crimping vs Scrimping - What's the difference?

crimping | scrimping |

As verbs the difference between crimping and scrimping

is that crimping is while scrimping is .

As nouns the difference between crimping and scrimping

is that crimping is the act by which something is crimped while scrimping is an amount saved little by little.

crimping

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act by which something is crimped.

    • scrimping

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • An amount saved little by little.
  • * (Jack London)
    • The savings and scrimpings from the cold nights of all his years were ripe to be squandered.
  • * 2005 , Wanda Coleman, The Riot Inside Me: More Trials & Tremors
    • In her efforts to transform me into the debutante I would never become, my mother spent her scrimpings on private piano, violin, and voice lessons.