scrump
To gather windfalls or small apples left on treesTo gather windfalls or small apples left on trees.
» Tom was seen scrumping apples from the neighbour's tree.
Tom ist dabei gesehen worden, wie er vom Baume des Nachbarn Äpfel stahl.
Значение
значений: 4(диалектное)To gather windfalls or small apples left on trees.
To steal fruit, especially apples, from a garden or orchard.
(диалектное)To pinch, stint; to beat down in price.
(устаревшее, сленг)To have sex.
Примеры
предложений: 3Tom was seen scrumping apples from the neighbour's tree.
deTom ist dabei gesehen worden, wie er vom Baume des Nachbarn Äpfel stahl. — Pfirsichbaeumchen
Every night, when all was quiet, he would steal into his neighbour's garden to scrump an apple.
deAllnächtlich, wenn es stille ward, schlich er sich in den Garten seines Nachbarn, einen Apfel zu stibitzen. — Pfirsichbaeumchen
A mouse is baked in the oven to a ‘scrump,’ then pounded to powder, and this powder administered.
Происхождение
From a dialectal variation of scrimp, probably from Middle Dutch or Middle Low German schrFrom a dialectal variation of scrimp, probably from Middle Dutch or Middle Low German schrimpen (“to shrivel up, shrink”), ultimately from Proto-Germanic *skrimpaną, *skrimbaną (“to shrink”), related to Old English sċrimman (“to shrink, draw up, contract”). Related to dialectal English skrammed (“benumbed, paralysed”), English shrimp.
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Формы
scrumps, scrumping, scrumped, scrumpedОднокоренные
связанных слов: 3Уроки к слову
уроков: 3- A1Present Simple: настоящее простое время — Потому что это глагол
- A1Past Simple: правильные глаголы — Потому что у него есть форма прошедшего времени
- A2Present Perfect: введение — Потому что у него есть причастие прошедшего времени