Word Meanings - SKIMP - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. To slight; to do carelessly; to scamp.

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• SLIGHTNESS
  The quality or state of being slight; slenderness; feebleness; superficiality; also, formerly, negligence; indifference; disregard.
• CARELESSLY
  In a careless manner.
• SLIGHTEN
  To slight. B. Jonson.
• SLIGHTINGLY
  In a slighting manner.
• SCAMPAVIA
  A long, low war galley used by the Neapolitans and Sicilians in the early part of the nineteenth century.
• SLIGHT
  Sleight. Spenser.
• SCAMPER
  To run with speed; to run or move in a quick, hurried manner; to hasten away. Macaulay. The lady, however, . . . could not help scampering about the room after a mouse. S. Sharpe. (more info) campus the field . See Camp, and cf. Decamp, Scamp,
• SLIGHTY
  Slight. Echard.
• SCAMPERER
  One who scampers. Tyndell.
• SLIGHTER
  One who slights.
• SCAMPISH
  Of or like a scamp; knavish; as, scampish conduct.
• SLIGHTFUL
  See SLEIGHTFUL
• SLIGHTLY
  1. In a slight manner. 2. Slightingly; negligently. Shak.
• SLIGHTING
  Characterized by neglect or disregard.
• SCAMP
  A rascal; a swindler; a rogue. De Quincey.
• DISCAMP
  To drive from a camp. Holland.
• GASLIGHT
  1. The light yielded by the combustion of illuminating gas. 2. A gas jet or burner.
• MISLIGHT
  To deceive or lead astray with a false light. Herrick.