Skimp vs Skims - What's the difference?
skimp | skims |
To slight; to do carelessly; to scamp.
To make insufficient allowance for; to scant; to scrimp.
To save; to be parsimonious or stingy.
A skimpy or insubstantial thing, especially a piece of clothing.
* 2007 , George Ella Lyon, With a Hammer for my Heart , p. 192:
(in the plural, colloquial) Underwear.
* 2007 ,
(skim)
To pass lightly; to glide along in an even, smooth course; to glide along near the surface.
* Alexander Pope
To pass near the surface of; to brush the surface of; to glide swiftly along the surface of.
* Hazlitt
To hasten along with superficial attention.
* I. Watts
To put on a finishing coat of plaster.
to throw an object so it bounces on water (skimming stones )
to ricochet
to read quickly, skipping some detail
to scrape off; to remove (something) from a surface
to clear (a liquid) from scum or substance floating or lying on it, by means of a utensil that passes just beneath the surface.
to clear a liquid from (scum or substance floating or lying on it), especially the cream that floats on top of fresh milk
(of milk) Having lowered fat content.
As verbs the difference between skimp and skims
is that skimp is to slight; to do carelessly; to scamp while skims is (skim).As an adjective skimp
is (dated|uk|dialect|or|us|colloquial) scanty.As a noun skimp
is a skimpy or insubstantial thing, especially a piece of clothing.skimp
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* (English Citations of "skimp")Noun
(en noun)- I remembered how fierce it hurt and how it blistered. All that pain from just a skimp of flesh.
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.
skims
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(head)skim
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(skimm)- Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain, / Flies o'er the unbending corn, and skims along the main.
- Homer describes Mercury as flinging himself from the top of Olympus, and skimming the surface of the ocean.
- They skim over a science in a very superficial survey.
- I skimmed the newspaper over breakfast.
- to skim''' milk; to '''skim broth
- to skim cream