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▪ I. scrump, n. dial.|skrʌmp|
[Cf. scrimp a. and v.]
Anything withered or dried up; spec., a withered or stunted apple.
1840Lady C. Bury Hist. Flirt xxiii, You two old scrumps, suppose you sit an hour in the pump-room. a1887Jefferies Field & Hedgerow (1892) 193 A mouse is baked in the oven to a ‘scrump’, then pounded to powder. 1887Parish & Shaw Dict. Kentish Dial. 138 Scrump, a stunted, badly-grown apple. 1896G. F. Northall Warwickshire Word-Bk. 203 Scrumps, sb. pl. Apples.
▪ II. scrump, v. dial. or slang.|skrʌmp|
[f. the n.]
trans. To steal (apples), esp. from orchards. Also transf. and absol.
1866R. Hallam Wadsley Jack iv. 17 Dick Greasy..ax'd me if I'd mak' one to goa a scrumpim', that is, fetchin' apples off sumboddy's trees. 1931‘G. Orwell’ Hop-Picking in Coll. Essays (1968) I. 71 Scrump, to, to steal. 1945B. Naughton in C. Madge Pilot Papers I. 101 They'd come scrumping..in Woolworths, or over at the market, or from the street stalls. 1951A. Baron Rosie Hogarth iii. i. 137 Scrumping apples, remember?.. God didn't put 'em on that tree for Mr. Moggeridge. 1966M. Torrie Heavy as Lead xiv. 169 His lordship was going scrumping... You know. Kids scrump apples, Sir G. scrumped rock garden plants. 1972K. Bonfiglioli Don't point that Thing at Me i. 3 English policemen..dare not even spank the bottoms of little boys caught scrumping apples nowadays.
Hence scrumped ppl. a.; ˈscrumper, one who scrumps; ˈscrumping vbl. n.
1946Scrutiny XIII. 293 There is to be, after all, no development in Fant's moral powers: only, as it were, a schoolboy scrumping of all the redeeming fruits of experience. 1957Times 20 Aug. 5/1 Scrumping is an offence which perhaps no one in this court-room has not committed. 1969M. Wiggin Cottage Idyll ii. 26 One scoundrel sent me a..message to the effect that he would like his cherished scrumping stick back. 1973D. Orgill Jasius Pursuit i. 9 If the police had to jail every hippy fruit-scrumper, the prisons would soon be overcrowded. 1976A. Hill Summer's End vii. 98 Scrumped apples always taste better than bought ones. 1981Daily Tel. 3 Mar. 3/1 (heading) Rector used stick on girl scrumper. |