scrimption

English

Etymology

From scrimpt +‎ -ion.

Noun

scrimption (plural scrimptions)

1. (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.