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scrumping

scrumping is the present participle and gerund of scrump.

Meaning of scrump

Verb

scrump (third-person singular simple present scrumps, present participle scrumping, simple past and past participle scrumped)

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

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Phrases with scrumping

Questions about scrumping

What is scrumping the present participle and gerund of?
Scrumping is the present participle and gerund of scrump.

Words near scrumping in the dictionary

  1. scrumped up
  2. scrumper
  3. scrumpers
  4. scrumpies
  5. scrumpilicious
  6. scrumping
  7. scrumping up
  8. scrumple
  9. scrumpled
  10. scrumples
  11. scrumplicious

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