A scrimption is “something tiny,” or as described in a 19th-century newspaper article, “the minutest atom, the little end of nothing sharpened.” This is part of a complete episode.
Here’s a little word you might not know, scrimption.
As defined in an 1830s newspaper, it’s the minutest atom, the little end of nothing sharpened.
Sharpening nothing.
A fine point of nothing.
A scrimption.
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