Meaning

3 senses

  1. (dialectal)Anything small or undersized.

  2. (dialectal)A withered, shrivelled, or undergrown person.

  3. (dialectal)A small apple.

Examples

3 sentences

  1. Tom was seen scrumping apples from the neighbour's tree.

    deTom ist dabei gesehen worden, wie er vom Baume des Nachbarn Äpfel stahl. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

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  2. 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

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  3. A mouse is baked in the oven to a ‘scrump,’ then pounded to powder, and this powder administered.

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Origin

From a dialectal variation of scrimp, probably from Middle Dutch or Middle Low German schr

From 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

plural: scrumps

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
scruffscruffyscrumptiousscrunchscruple
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