- mean, meagre; to economise, to be mean. One has to sympathise with James, the subject of John Brown’s story Jeems the Doorkeeper (1864): Nature had finished off the rest of Jeems somewhat scrimply, as if she had run out of means. More uplifting is a poem (1873) from Andrew Wanless: Folk, dinna be scrimp, ’twill gi’e life a relish, To be couthie and kind to the Poor o’ the Parish.
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