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    [Adjective]  | "scant" | \ ˈskant \


    1: excessively frugal

    2: not prodigal : chary

    3: barely or scarcely sufficient; especially : not quite coming up to a stated measure


    Origin: 14th century ;

     Middle English, from Old Norse skamt, neuter of skammr short;

    [Adverb]  | "scantly" 


    2: as in insufficiently, scantily;




    [Adjective]  | "scant" 


    1: less plentiful than what is normal, necessary, or desirable;


      * e.g., " ... jobs for teenagers were scant that summer "





     [ "scantly clad" ]

    1: A state of mostly undressed.

      * e.g.,  ... The stage was covered in young, fluorescent, scantly clad girls. 

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