Every night, when all was quiet, he would steal into his neighbour's garden to scrump an apple.
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Scrump
//ˈskɹʌmp//
Synonyms for "scrump"
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Translations
3 translations across 3 languages.
Norwegian
1 entries- gå på slang/epleslang verb (to steal fruit, especially apples, from a garden or orchard)
Slovene
1 entries- rabutati verb (to steal fruit, especially apples, from a garden or orchard)
Swedish
1 entries- palla verb (to steal fruit, especially apples, from a garden or orchard)
Sample sentences
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A mouse is baked in the oven to a ‘scrump,’ then pounded to powder, and this powder administered.
Source: tatoeba (12131188)
(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! ...)
Source: wiktionary
[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 ...
Source: wiktionary
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