"scrump" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˈskɹʌmp/ [UK] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-scrump.wav [Southern-England] Forms: scrumps [plural]
Rhymes: -ʌmp 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. Etymology templates: {{m|en|scrimp}} scrimp, {{cln|en|undefined derivations}}, {{uder|en|dum|-}} Middle Dutch, {{bor|en|gml|schrimpen|t=to shrivel up, shrink}} Middle Low German schrimpen (“to shrivel up, shrink”), {{der|en|gem-pro|*skrimpaną}} Proto-Germanic *skrimpaną, {{m|gem-pro|*skrimbaną|t=to shrink}} *skrimbaną (“to shrink”), {{cog|ang|sċrimman|t=to shrink, draw up, contract}} Old English sċrimman (“to shrink, draw up, contract”), {{cog|en|skrammed|t=benumbed, paralysed}} English skrammed (“benumbed, paralysed”), {{cog|en|shrimp}} English shrimp Head templates: {{en-noun}} scrump (plural scrumps)
  1. (dialectal) Anything small or undersized. Tags: dialectal
    Sense id: en-scrump-en-noun-ULjBjDDe
  2. (dialectal) A withered, shrivelled, or undergrown person. Tags: dialectal
    Sense id: en-scrump-en-noun-HJOBCWMj
  3. (dialectal) A small apple. Tags: dialectal
    Sense id: en-scrump-en-noun-~4k9K6jp
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: skrump, skrimp

Verb

IPA: /ˈskɹʌmp/ [UK] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-scrump.wav [Southern-England] Forms: scrumps [present, singular, third-person], scrumping [participle, present], scrumped [participle, past], scrumped [past]
Rhymes: -ʌmp 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. Etymology templates: {{m|en|scrimp}} scrimp, {{cln|en|undefined derivations}}, {{uder|en|dum|-}} Middle Dutch, {{bor|en|gml|schrimpen|t=to shrivel up, shrink}} Middle Low German schrimpen (“to shrivel up, shrink”), {{der|en|gem-pro|*skrimpaną}} Proto-Germanic *skrimpaną, {{m|gem-pro|*skrimbaną|t=to shrink}} *skrimbaną (“to shrink”), {{cog|ang|sċrimman|t=to shrink, draw up, contract}} Old English sċrimman (“to shrink, draw up, contract”), {{cog|en|skrammed|t=benumbed, paralysed}} English skrammed (“benumbed, paralysed”), {{cog|en|shrimp}} English shrimp Head templates: {{en-verb}} scrump (third-person singular simple present scrumps, present participle scrumping, simple past and past participle scrumped)
  1. (dialectal) To gather windfalls or small apples left on trees. Tags: dialectal
    Sense id: en-scrump-en-verb-SRaCSASv
  2. To steal fruit, especially apples, from a garden or orchard. Translations (to steal fruit, especially apples, from a garden or orchard): gå på slang/epleslang (Norwegian), rabutati [imperfective] (Slovene), palla (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-scrump-en-verb-Is1wWm9a Disambiguation of 'to steal fruit, especially apples, from a garden or orchard': 4 91 3 2
  3. (dialectal) To pinch, stint; to beat down in price. Tags: dialectal
    Sense id: en-scrump-en-verb-wRx7P-mA
  4. (slang, dated) To have sex. Tags: dated, slang
    Sense id: en-scrump-en-verb-z2n28Vuc
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: skrump, skrimp Related terms: scrumpy, shrump

Inflected forms

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  "etymology_text": "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.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "scrumps",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "scrumping",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "scrumped",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "scrumped",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "args": {},
      "expansion": "scrump (third-person singular simple present scrumps, present participle scrumping, simple past and past participle scrumped)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "scrumpy"
    },
    {
      "word": "shrump"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English dialectal terms"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To gather windfalls or small apples left on trees."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "windfall",
          "windfall"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(dialectal) To gather windfalls or small apples left on trees."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "dialectal"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1994, Edward Bond, Edward Bond Letters, volume 1, page 180",
          "text": "(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! ...)",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "text": "1997, Caradog Prichard, translated by Philip Mitchell, One Moonlit Night, page 18:",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2000, Bill Oddie, Gripping Yarns, page 12",
          "roman": "I told myself I'd never scrump gooseberries again, or go scrumping apples with Huw and Moi ...",
          "text": "[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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2006, Richard Dawkins, chapter 7, in The God Delusion, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, page 251",
          "text": "Scrumping itself is a mot juste of unusual economy. It doesn’t just mean stealing: it specifically means stealing apples and only apples.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To steal fruit, especially apples, from a garden or orchard."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "fruit",
          "fruit"
        ],
        [
          "apple",
          "apple"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English dialectal terms"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To pinch, stint; to beat down in price."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "pinch",
          "pinch"
        ],
        [
          "stint",
          "stint"
        ],
        [
          "beat down",
          "beat down"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(dialectal) To pinch, stint; to beat down in price."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "dialectal"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English dated terms",
        "English slang"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To have sex."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "sex",
          "sex"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(slang, dated) To have sex."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "dated",
        "slang"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈskɹʌmp/",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ʌmp"
    },
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      "tags": [
        "Southern-England"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (Southern England)"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "skrump"
    },
    {
      "word": "skrimp"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "no",
      "lang": "Norwegian",
      "sense": "to steal fruit, especially apples, from a garden or orchard",
      "word": "gå på slang/epleslang"
    },
    {
      "code": "sl",
      "lang": "Slovene",
      "sense": "to steal fruit, especially apples, from a garden or orchard",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "rabutati"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "to steal fruit, especially apples, from a garden or orchard",
      "word": "palla"
    }
  ],
  "word": "scrump"
}

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