miser vs scrimp

miser

noun
  • A person who hoards money rather than spending it; one who is cheap or extremely parsimonious. 

  • A kind of earth auger, typically large-bored and often hand-operated. 

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 miser and scrimp occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )