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Stint vs Skimp - What's the difference?

stint | skimp |

As nouns the difference between stint and skimp

is that stint is a period of time spent doing or being something a spell or stint can be any of several very small wading birds in the genus calidris types of sandpiper, such as the dunlin or the sanderling or stint can be (medical device) while skimp is a skimpy or insubstantial thing, especially a piece of clothing.

As verbs the difference between stint and skimp

is that stint is (archaic|intransitive) to stop (an action); cease, desist while skimp is to slight; to do carelessly; to scamp.

As an adjective skimp is

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

stint

English

Etymology 1

(etyl) .

Noun

(en noun)
  • A period of time spent doing or being something. A spell.
    • He had a stint in jail.
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  • limit; bound; restraint; extent
  • * South
    • God has wrote upon no created thing the utmost stint of his power.
  • Quantity or task assigned; proportion allotted.
  • * Cowper
    • His old stint — three thousand pounds a year.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (archaic) To stop (an action); cease, desist.
  • * 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , III.iii:
    • O do thy cruell wrath and spightfull wrong / At length allay, and stint thy stormy strife
  • * Shakespeare
    • And stint thou too, I pray thee.
  • * Sir Walter Scott
    • The damsel stinted in her song.
  • (obsolete) To stop speaking or talking (of a subject).
  • * Late 14th century , :
    • Now wol I stynten of this Arveragus, / And speken I wole of Dorigen his wyf
  • To be sparing or mean.
    • The next party you throw, don't stint on the beer.
  • To restrain within certain limits; to bound; to restrict to a scant allowance.
  • * Woodward
    • I shall not go about to extenuate the latitude of the curse upon the earth, or stint it only to the production of weeds.
  • * Law
    • She stints them in their meals.
  • To assign a certain task to (a person), upon the performance of which he/she is excused from further labour for that day or period; to stent.
  • To impregnate successfully; to get with foal; said of mares.
  • * J. H. Walsh
    • The majority of maiden mares will become stinted while at work.

    Etymology 2

    Origin unknown.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Any of several very small wading birds in the genus Calidris . Types of sandpiper, such as the dunlin or the sanderling.

    • Etymology 3

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (medical device).

    • Anagrams

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    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.

    • Quotations

    * (English Citations of "skimp")

    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.