English to Irish Meaning of scrimp - scrimp

Scrimp :

scrimp

noun

Scrimp :: scrimpScrimped :: scrimpedScrimping :: scrimpingScrimps :: scrimps

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Definitions of scrimp in English

Verb(1) subsist on a meager allowance

Examples of scrimp in English

(1) They were fed a diet of commercial shrimp pellets every third day.(2) The development of his theory began in 1994, when Andrew persuaded a film crew to film seed shrimp he'd caught off the Manly coast.(3) Eumalacostraca is the group that contains most of the animals the general public recognize as crustaceans, such as shrimp , crabs, lobsters.(4) Are you sure you want to hang out with that shrimp ?(5) The seadragon's diet consists of mysid shrimp and other small crustaceans.(6) They eat tiny organisms, such as mysid shrimp , that they find close to the ocean floor.(7) I got some groceries, but I also got some of those shrimp they have under heat lamps near the aisles.(8) For the many children participating it was a good opportunity to get close to mitten crabs, shrimp , fresh water mussels and even eels, as well as to a lot of deliciously slithery mud!(9) I can handle a shrimp like him any time(10) The trip north is slow for the cow-calf pair because of stops for nursing and the occasional meal of mysid shrimp or other food encountered.(11) There was dinghy sailing on the Camel Estuary, shrimping at low tide near Padstow, dune-jumping at Rock, surfing on Polzeath beach, surfing anywhere.(12) One of the boys, a shrimpy little kid, was closer to the ground and faster than the rest of us.(13) The Legislature recently passed a law restricting the state's commercial inshore oyster and offshore shrimping industries to new participants.(14) As we crept slowly across the flat in about 15 inches of water, we could see tailing bones rooting about in the soft bottom or around the mangroves, for crabs, shrimps or any other food item they could find.(15) Since there are usually few environmentalists already in shrimping areas, it is local producers themselves who have to take matters into their own hands and say no to the farms.(16) There are a fair number of nudibranchs and flatworms, all brightly coloured and sometimes difficult to distinguish, featherstars, shrimps , spiny lobsters and other hole-dwelling critters.

Related Phrases of scrimp

(1) scrimp and save ::

scrimp agus a shábháil

Related Phrases of scrimp

(1) scrimp and save ::

scrimp agus a shábháil

Synonyms

Verb

2. skimp ::

skimp

3. scrimp and save ::

scrimp agus a shábháil

4. save ::

shábháil

5. be thrifty ::

bheith thrifty

6. be frugal ::

bheith frugal

7. tighten one's belt ::

níos doichte amháin crios

8. cut back ::

gearradh siar

9. husband one's resources ::

fear céile amháin acmhainní

10. watch one's pennies ::

ag breathnú amháin pinginí

Antonyms

1. waste ::

dramhaíl

Different Forms

scrimp, scrimped, scrimping, scrimps

English to Irish Dictionary: scrimp

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