Definitions For Scrump

Verb

{{en-verb}} (dialectal) To gather windfalls or small apples left on trees. To steal fruit, especially apples, from a garden or orchard. (dialectal) To pinch, stint; to beat down in price.

Translations

Norwegian: gå på slang/epleslang Swedish: palla

See also

scrumpy shrump

Noun

SCRUMP (plural SCRUMPs) (dialectal) Anything small or undersized. (dialectal, by extension) A withered, shrivelled, or undergrown person. (dialectal) A small apple.

Alternative forms

{{alter, en, skrump, skrimp}}

Etymology

From a dialectal variation of scrimp, probably from {{etyl, dum, en}} or {{bor, en, gml, schrimpen, t=to shrivel up, shrink}}, ultimately from {{der, en, gem-pro, *skrimpaną}}, *skrimbaną, t=to shrink, related to {{cog, ang, sċrimman, t=to shrink, draw up, contract}}. Related to dialectal {{cog, en, skrammed, t=benumbed, paralysed}}, {{cog, en, shrimp}}.

Anagrams

crumps