different between scrumpy vs scrump

English

Etymology

From scrump +? -y

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?sk??m.pi/

Noun

scrumpy (countable and uncountable, plural scrumpies)

1. (Britain) A rough cider, normally more alcoholic than usual, and typically produced through natural fermentation.

Derived terms

• scrumpy and western

English

Alternative forms

• skrump, skrimp

Etymology

From a dialectal variation of scrimp, probably from Middle Dutch or Middle Low German schrimpen (“to shrivel up, shrink”), ultimately from Proto-Germanic *skrimpan?, *skrimban? (“to shrink”), related to Old English s?rimman (“to shrink, draw up, contract”). Related to dialectal English skrammed (“benumbed, paralysed”), English shrimp.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?sk??mp/

Noun

scrump (plural scrumps)

1. (dialectal) Anything small or undersized.
2. (dialectal, by extension) A withered, shrivelled, or undergrown person.
3. (dialectal) A small apple.

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! ...)

   • I told myself I'd never scrump gooseberries again, or go scrumping apples with Huw and Moi ...

3. (dialectal) To pinch, stint; to beat down in price.

Translations

See also

• scrumpy
• shrump

Anagrams

• crumps