scrump

Meaning

Noun

1. (dialectal) Anything small or undersized.
2. (dialectal) A withered, shrivelled, or undergrown person.
3. (dialectal) A small apple.

Verb

1. (dialectal) To gather windfalls or small apples left on trees.
2. To steal fruit, especially apples, from a garden or orchard.
3. (dialectal) To pinch, stint; to beat down in price.
4. (dated, slang) To have sex.

Synonyms

munch

nosh

Translations

manducar

🍽️

menjar a dos queixos

mampfen

bouffer

🍽️

divorare

abbuffare

sbafare

manducar

🍽️

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈskɹʌmp/

Etymology

Cognate with Old English: sċrimman

Cognate with English: skrammed

Cognate with English: shrimp

In summary

From a dialectal variation of scrimp, probably from Middle Dutch or Middle Low German schrimpen (“to shrivel up, shrink”), ultimately from Proto-Germanic *skrimpaną, *skrimbaną (“to shrink”), related to Old English sċrimman (“to shrink, draw up, contract”). Related to dialectal English skrammed (“benumbed, paralysed”), English shrimp.