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VERB + SCRUMP
garden
SCRUMP + NOUN
apple
ADV.
then
noun
Anything small or undersized.
A withered, shrivelled, or undergrown person.
A small apple.
verb
To gather windfalls or small apples left on trees.
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 ...
To pinch, stint; to beat down in price.
To have sex.
(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
Wiktionary[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
WiktionaryEvery night, when all was quiet, he would steal into his neighbour's garden to scrump an apple.
Tatoeba · #11593545A mouse is baked in the oven to a ‘scrump,’ then pounded to powder, and this powder administered.
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In some senses, scrump is marked as dated, slang. Watch for register when choosing this word.