Scrump

/ˈskɹʌmp/ · noun

Meaning

(dialectal) Anything small or undersized..

Definitions by Sense

1. (dialectal) Anything small or undersized.
2. (dialectal) A withered, shrivelled, or undergrown person.
3. (dialectal) A small apple.
4. (dialectal) To gather windfalls or small apples left on trees.
5. To steal fruit, especially apples, from a garden or orchard.
6. (dialectal) To pinch, stint; to beat down in price.
7. (slang, dated) To have sex.

Example Sentences

(we've all seen trees, and arent Adam and Eve condemned for having gone scrumping?; interestingly a great philosopher recalled Saint Augustine spent a lot of his long life being racked with guilt for having gone scrumping for some pears when he was a boy! ...)

[I]t was something that every schoolboy of my generation almost `had' to do, as obligatory a proof of impending manliness as scrumping apples or pulling girls' pigtails. I told myself I'd never scrump gooseberries again, or go scrumping apples with Huw and Moi ...

Scrumping itself is a mot juste of unusual economy. It doesn’t just mean stealing: it specifically means stealing apples and only apples.

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Word Forms

• scrumps
• skrump
• skrimp
• scrumping
• scrumped

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