scrump

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It's a recognised English word, but it isn't in the official NASPA Scrabble word list.

Scrabble points
12
Words With Friends
16
Letters
6
Pronunciation
/ˈskɹʌmp/ (UK)

Definition of scrump

7 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (dialectal)Anything small or undersized.
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noun

  1. (dialectal)Anything small or undersized.
  2. (dialectal)A withered, shrivelled, or undergrown person.
  3. (dialectal)A small apple.

verb

  1. (dialectal)To gather windfalls or small apples left on trees.
  2. To steal fruit, especially apples, from a garden or orchard.
    “(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.”
  3. (dialectal)To pinch, stint; to beat down in price.
  4. (dated, slang)To have sex.

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Etymology

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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