scrump
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It's a recognised English word, but it isn't in the official NASPA Scrabble word list.
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Definition of scrump
7 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
noun
- (dialectal)Anything small or undersized.
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noun
- (dialectal)Anything small or undersized.
- (dialectal)A withered, shrivelled, or undergrown person.
- (dialectal)A small apple.
verb
- (dialectal)To gather windfalls or small apples left on trees.
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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.”
- (dialectal)To pinch, stint; to beat down in price.
- (dated, slang)To have sex.
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
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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