- scrump
- scrump·tious;scrump;scrump·tious·ly;
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scrump — [skrʌmp] v [T] BrE old fashioned [Date: 1800 1900; Origin: From dialect scrump dried up apple ] to steal fruit from trees in people s gardens … Dictionary of contemporary English
scrump — ► VERB Brit. informal ▪ steal (fruit) from an orchard or garden. ORIGIN from dialect, «withered apple» … English terms dictionary
scrump — verb Brit. informal steal (fruit) from an orchard or garden. Origin C19: from dialect scrump withered apple … English new terms dictionary
scrump´tious|ness — scrump|tious «SKRUHMP shuhs», adjective. Informal. elegant; splendid; first rate: »Probably the lumberyard isn t as scrumptious as all these Greek temples (Sinclair Lewis). ╂[American English; apparently alteration of sumptuous] –scrump´tious|ly … Useful english dictionary
scrump´tious|ly — scrump|tious «SKRUHMP shuhs», adjective. Informal. elegant; splendid; first rate: »Probably the lumberyard isn t as scrumptious as all these Greek temples (Sinclair Lewis). ╂[American English; apparently alteration of sumptuous] –scrump´tious|ly … Useful english dictionary
scrump|tious — «SKRUHMP shuhs», adjective. Informal. elegant; splendid; first rate: »Probably the lumberyard isn t as scrumptious as all these Greek temples (Sinclair Lewis). ╂[American English; apparently alteration of sumptuous] –scrump´tious|ly … Useful english dictionary
Scrump-dililly-lish — Extremely pleasant in taste. These cream pufs are scrump dililly lish … Dictionary of american slang
Scrump-dililly-lish — Extremely pleasant in taste. These cream pufs are scrump dililly lish … Dictionary of american slang
scrump — verb /ˈskɹʌmp/ To steal fruit, especially apples, from a garden or orchard. (weve 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 … Wiktionary
scrump — Generally used in a derogatory manner, it s a term for having sex derived from screw and hump. All he cared about was getting her back to his place and scrumping her … Dictionary of american slang
