scrimption

English

Etymology

scrimpt +‎ -ion

Noun

scrimption (plural scrimptions)

(UK, dialect, archaic) A small portion; a little bit; a scrap.
- 1859, Timothy Shay Arthur, Trials and Confessions of a Housekeeper, page 31:
  There's not a scrimption left - not so much as the full of a thimble.

References

Robert Forby (1830) The Vocabulary of East-Anglia etc, volume 2, page 291
Dialect Notes, volume 3, 1905, page 547
“scrimption”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

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