scrimpit

"Mind this, Sabrina, I have told you all to my heart's keel; and if folks are saying to you that Jamie has given Christina the slip, or that the Binnies are scrimpit for poverty's sake, or the like of any other ill-natured thing, you will be knowing how to answer them."

A Knight of the Nets Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr 1875

And if folks noticed we were scrimpit, why didn't they think about helping us?

A Knight of the Nets Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr 1875

Forbes twa or three times, but I got but ae scrimpit answer.

Alec Forbes of Howglen George MacDonald 1864

I wad hae repentit lang syne gin I cud hae gotten ae glimp o 'a possible justice in pittin a hert as grit's mine into sic a misgreein', scrimpit, contemptible body as this.

Alec Forbes of Howglen George MacDonald 1864

'A could na 'bear to see thee wi' thy cloak scrimpit.

Sylvia's Lovers — Complete Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell 1837

'A could na 'bear to see thee wi' thy cloak scrimpit.

Sylvia's Lovers — Volume 1 Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell 1837

Right to the forehand of us was a large green curtain, some five or six ells wide, a good deal the worse of the wear, having seen service through two-three summers; and, just in the front of it, were eight or ten penny candles stuck in a board fastened to the ground, to let us see the players 'feet like, when they came on the stage -- and even before they came on the stage -- for the curtain being scrimpit in length, we saw legs and sandals moving behind the scenes very neatly; while two blind fiddlers they had brought with them played the bonniest ye ever heard.

The Life of Mansie Wauch tailor in Dalkeith David Macbeth Moir 1824

Right to the forehand of us was a large green curtain, some five or six ells wide, a good deal the worse of the wear, having seen service through two-three summers; and, just in the front of it, were eight or ten penny candles stuck in a board fastened to the ground, to let us see the players 'feet like, when they came on the stage -- and even before they came on the stage -- for the curtain being scrimpit in length, we saw legs and sandals moving behind the scenes very neatly; while two blind fiddlers they had brought with them played the bonniest ye ever heard.

The Life of Mansie Wauch Tailor in Dalkeith, written by himself David Macbeth Moir 1824

"With money to the fore, you shouldn't have been so scrimpit with yourselves in such a time of work and trouble.

A Knight of the Nets Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr 1875

"It aye seems to me he has sic a scrimpit way o 'believin'!

Salted with Fire George MacDonald 1864