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.
Meaning
4 senses(dialectal)To gather windfalls or small apples left on trees.
To steal fruit, especially apples, from a garden or orchard.
(dialectal)To pinch, stint; to beat down in price.
(dated, slang)To have sex.
Examples
3 sentencesTom was seen scrumping apples from the neighbour's tree.
deTom ist dabei gesehen worden, wie er vom Baume des Nachbarn Äpfel stahl.
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.
A mouse is baked in the oven to a ‘scrump,’ then pounded to powder, and this powder administered.
Origin
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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Forms
scrumps, scrumping, scrumped, scrumpedWord family
3 related wordsLessons for this word
3 lessons- A1Present simple — Because it is a verb
- A1Past simple, regular verbs — Because of its past form
- A2Present perfect: introduction — Because of its past participle