skimp

verb /ˈskɪmp/

1. To mock, deride, scorn, scold, make fun of.

   I thought Adie was only skimpin' me.

Where it comes from

Perhaps of North Germanic origin, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *skimpijaną (“to skip, dance, gesture, mock”). Cognate with Icelandic skimpa (“to scoff at, scorn”), dialectal Swedish skimpa (“to skip, dance”), Faroese skumpa (“to shove, bump”), German schimpfen (“to grumble, scold”), Dutch schimpen (“to mock, make fun of, scold”). Possibly distantly related to change.

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry skimp (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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