Skimp vs Withhold - What's the difference?
skimp | withhold |
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 ,
To keep (a physical object that one has obtained) to oneself rather than giving it back to its owner.
To keep (information, etc) to oneself rather than revealing it.
To retain; to keep back; not to grant; as, to withhold assent to a proposition.
As verbs the difference between skimp and withhold
is that skimp is to slight; to do carelessly; to scamp while withhold is to keep (a physical object that one has obtained) to oneself rather than giving it back to its owner.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.