Scottish National Dictionary (1700–)
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First published 1971 (SND Vol. VIII).
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Quotation dates: 1920-1931
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SCRINT, v., n. Also skrint. [skrɪnt]
I. v. To economise, live and act frugally or parsimoniously.Dmb. 1931 A. J. Cronin Hatter's Castle ii. xi.:
We've got to scrint to pay his [doctor's] bills.
II. n. A miserly money-grubbing person.Lth. 1920 A. Dodds Songs of Fields 3:
O' a terrible skrint was auld Fermer Flint: He hained and he held, he grabbet and gether't.
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