minimalist vs scrimp

minimalist

adj
  • Believing in or seeking a minimal state; seeking to minimize or reduce to a minimum. 

noun
  • One who believes in or seeks a minimal state; one who seeks to minimize or reduce to a minimum. 

scrimp

adj
  • Short; scanty; curtailed. 

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. 

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