scrump

Meanings

Noun

• Anything small or undersized.
• A withered, shrivelled, or undergrown person.
• A small apple.

Verb

• To gather windfalls or small apples left on trees.
• To steal fruit, especially apples, from a garden or orchard.
• To pinch, stint; to beat down in price.

Origin

• From a dialectal variation of scrimp, probably from Middle Dutch or Middle Low German schrimpen, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *skrimpaną, *skrimbaną, related to Old English sċrimman. Related to dialectal English skrammed, English shrimp.