scrimp vs shrinker

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. 

shrinker

noun
  • One who shrinks or recoils. 

  • Something that makes something else shrink. 

  • A psychiatrist; a head-shrinker. 

  • Something that itself shrinks. 

  • A sock-like article used to compress a stump remaining after amputation. 

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