Definitions
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- v. To steal fruit, especially apples, 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.
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Stopping to admire an orchard, Kuralay jumps up to pull down a branch, and we scrump an apple or two.
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Annmarie, the cake looks scrump and I like your detour with cherries.
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Oh! scrump! said Peter Piper, who sometimes invented doll slang though there wasnt really a bit of harm in him.
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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 -
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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.
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A mouse is baked in the oven to a 'scrump,' then pounded to powder, and this powder administered.
Field and Hedgerow Being the Last Essays of Richard Jefferies
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Regardless of that mini-rant, do pop though and take a look at these scrump-diddly-umptious book collections at Bookshelf Porn.
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
johnmperry commented on the word scrump
v. to steal apples from a tree
June 20, 2008