scrimp

From Scots scrimp (“meager”), from Middle Dutch or Middle Low German schrimpen (“to shrivel up, wrinkle”), from Old Dutch scrimpan, from Frankish skrimpan, ultimately from Proto-Germanic skrimpaną (“to shrink”), from Proto-Indo-European (s)ker- (“to cut off”), related to Old English sċrimman (“to shrink”) and sċrincan (“to shrivel up”). Doublet of shrink, shrimp, and shrim.