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Skimp vs Simp - What's the difference?

skimp | simp |

As nouns the difference between skimp and simp

is that skimp is a skimpy or insubstantial thing, especially a piece of clothing while simp is (slang) a simple person lacking common sense; a fool or simpleton.

As a verb skimp

is to slight; to do carelessly; to scamp.

As an adjective skimp

is (dated|uk|dialect|or|us|colloquial) scanty.

skimp

English

Verb

  • To slight; to do carelessly; to scamp.
  • To make insufficient allowance for; to scant; to scrimp.
  • To save; to be parsimonious or stingy.

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    Related terms

    * skimpily * skimpy

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (dated, UK, dialect, or, US, colloquial) Scanty.

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A skimpy or insubstantial thing, especially a piece of clothing.
  • * 2007 , George Ella Lyon, With a Hammer for my Heart , p. 192:
    • I remembered how fierce it hurt and how it blistered. All that pain from just a skimp of flesh.
  • (in the plural, colloquial) Underwear.
  • * 2007 , Zoo Today:
    • While presenting a rundown of the sexiest soap stars in the world in this week's ZOO, Hollyoaks' Gemma Atkinson very kindly stripped down to her skimps herself.

    simp

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (slang) A simple person lacking common sense; a fool or simpleton.
  • *1946 , Mezz Mezzrow and Bernard Wolfe, Really the Blues , Payback Press 1999, p. 59:
  • *:Pimps and simps would fall in from here and there and everywhere, grabbing thousand-dollar advances from the madames and leaving their lady friends in pawn.
  • * 1981 , Philip K. Dick, Valis , ISBN 0553205943, p. 105
    • Groggy from my nap I turn on the TV and try to watch.... Morons and simps appear in the screen, drool like pinheads and waterheads....

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