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skimpy

skimpy

15 4.9
Clothes that are very small and show a lot of the body
  • adjective
  • /ˈskɪm.pi/
  • NSFW
: revelador
  • The Ice Princess stands here, near the lip of the building, shivering in her skimpy costume.
  • wear skimpy clothes
  • skimpy clothing
  • a skimpy outfit

He'd actually changed his clothes into like like tennis sneakers, like hot pants and like a skimpy top.

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Examples

  • In a white T-shirt, a skimpy black skirt, and work boots, the girl ascends the stage.

    Fiction book (1998)

  • Underneath, she is wearing practically nothing: a skimpy black dress.

    Fiction book (2001)

  • It's a skimpy dress, Franny.

    The Hotel New Hampshire (1984)

  • Mrs. Claus would never wear anything this skimpy.

    The Undefeated (2011)

  • She's dressed in a skimpy piece of bright pink lingerie.

    Fiction book (1991)

  • HONEY, I JUST COULDN'T LET YOU GO OUT THERE IN THAT SKIMPY LITTLE THING.

    Drop Dead Gorgeous (1999)

  • You saw fifty-year-old women in skimpy sunsuits, sixty-year-old men in T-shirts and dungarees.

    Fiction book (1999)

  • A redhead poured into a skimpy miniskirt that might've been taken off the set of Laugh-In.

    Fiction book (1999)

  • The model walked down the runway in a skimpy dress that left little to the imagination.

  • At the beach, she wore a skimpy bikini that highlighted her figure.

Synonyms

low-cut
vsskimpy
  • NSFW
13 3.5

Clothes with a low neckline or back that show more skin

is about garments that are very small overall rather than only a low neckline
brief
vsskimpy
3 3.6

Clothing that is very short and covers little of the body

is about very small revealing garments not just short length
scanty
vsskimpy
  • NSFW
1 7.1

Clothing that shows more of the body than usual

is focused on being overall very small and revealing rather than sufficiency
abbreviated
vsskimpy
1 5.7

Very short clothes that show much of the body

is more general meaning clothing that is overall very small and revealing

Antonyms

modest
5 3.6

Clothes or behavior that do not show much skin and avoid sexual attention

How Revealing

transparent
50 3.2
revealing
81 4.0
skimpy
  • NSFW
15 4.9
scanty
  • NSFW
1 7.1
modest
5 3.6

Surface Forms

skimpy positive

Morphology

skimpy = skimp (semi-transparent) = skimp + y

The 'revealing/clothing' sense is an extension of 'scant' or 'insufficient' coverage; formed by productive suffixation of '-y' to 'skimp'.

Etymology

The word skimpy also comes from skim and the related verb skimp, which carry the idea of giving only a little. So skimpy clothes 'cover only a small part' of the body and therefore seem very small or revealing.