scrump

plural scrumps · alternative skrump · alternative skrimp

1. dialectalAnything small or undersized.
2. dialectalA withered, shrivelled, or undergrown person.
3. dialectalA small apple.

present singular third person scrumps · participle present scrumping · participle past scrumped · past scrumped · alternative skrump · alternative skrimp

1. dialectalTo gather windfalls or small apples left on trees.
2. To steal fruit, especially apples, from a garden or orchard.

   Scrumping itself is a mot juste of unusual economy. It doesn’t just mean stealing: it specifically means stealing apples and only apples.

   2006, Richard Dawkins, chapter 7, in The God Delusion, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, →ISBN, page 251

   2 more examples

   (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! ...)

   1994, Edward Bond, Edward Bond Letters, volume 1, page 180

   [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 ...

   2000, Bill Oddie, Gripping Yarns, page 12

3. dialectalTo pinch, stint; to beat down in price.
4. datedslangTo have sex.