Definitions
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- verb To steal
fruit , especiallyapples , from a garden or orchard.
Etymologies
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Examples
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There are lettuces whose stalks are still wet with milky sap, carrots straight from the ground and apples like those you used to scrump from a neighbour's garden.
Observer Food Monthly Awards 2011 Best Newcomer: Maltby Street 2011
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Stopping to admire an orchard, Kuralay jumps up to pull down a branch, and we scrump an apple or two.
Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009
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Stopping to admire an orchard, Kuralay jumps up to pull down a branch, and we scrump an apple or two.
Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009
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Annmarie, the cake looks scrump and I like your detour with cherries.
The Daring Bakers: Perfect Party Cake Annemarie 2008
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Oh! scrump! said Peter Piper, who sometimes invented doll slang though there wasnt really a bit of harm in him.
The RACKETTY-PACKETTY House Frances Hodgson Burnett 2006
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To think that just a year ago, the spooky, specter-like Mr. Brownridge showed up at the Wenner holiday bash with none other than right-wing scrump kitten Ann Coulter on his arm.
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To think that just a year ago, the spooky, specter-like Mr. Brownridge showed up at the Wenner holiday bash with none other than right-wing scrump kitten Ann Coulter on his arm.
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How deep does his Peter Pan-syndrome run when he thinks inviting pre-pubescent boys over to scrump is okay?
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And the lava down the mountain's runnin 'scrump-shus as a cherry pie -
Gravity's Rainbow Pynchon, Thomas 1978
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"Oh! scrump!" said Peter Piper, who sometimes invented doll slang -- though there wasn't really a bit of harm in him.
Racketty-Packetty House Frances Hodgson Burnett 1886
johnmperry commented on the word scrump
v. to steal apples from a tree
June 20, 2008
Piknik commented on the word scrump
Nesbo, Jo (2002) Nemesis. Translated from the Norwegian by Don Bartlett, 2008. New York: HarperCollins. scrump, Novel
May 2, 2012