cheapskate vs scrimp

cheapskate

noun
  • Someone who does not give freely. 

  • Someone who stingily avoids spending money. 

scrimp

noun
  • A pinching miser; a niggard. 

verb
  • To be frugal. 

  • To limit or straiten; to put on short allowance. 

  • To make too small or short. 

adj
  • Short; scanty; curtailed. 

How often have the words cheapskate and scrimp occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )