Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to scrump
Participle: scrumped
Gerund: scrumping
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | scrump |
| you | scrump |
| he;she;it | scrumps |
| we | scrump |
| you | scrump |
| they | scrump |
Perfect
| I | have scrumped |
| you | have scrumped |
| he;she;it | has scrumped |
| we | have scrumped |
| you | have scrumped |
| they | have scrumped |
Past
| I | scrumped |
| you | scrumped |
| he;she;it | scrumped |
| we | scrumped |
| you | scrumped |
| they | scrumped |
Pluperfect
| I | had scrumped |
| you | had scrumped |
| he;she;it | had scrumped |
| we | had scrumped |
| you | had scrumped |
| they | had scrumped |
Future
| I | will scrump |
| you | will scrump |
| he;she;it | will scrump |
| we | will scrump |
| you | will scrump |
| they | will scrump |
Future Perfect
| I | will have scrumped |
| you | will have scrumped |
| he;she;it | will have scrumped |
| we | will have scrumped |
| you | will have scrumped |
| they | will have scrumped |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | scrump |
| you | scrump |
| he;she;it | scrump |
| we | scrump |
| you | scrump |
| they | scrump |
Perfect
| I | have scrumped |
| you | have scrumped |
| he;she;it | have scrumped |
| we | have scrumped |
| you | have scrumped |
| they | have scrumped |
Imperfect
| I | scrumped |
| you | scrumped |
| he;she;it | scrumped |
| we | scrumped |
| you | scrumped |
| they | scrumped |
Pluperfect
| I | had scrumped |
| you | had scrumped |
| he;she;it | had scrumped |
| we | had scrumped |
| you | had scrumped |
| they | had scrumped |
Conditional
Present
| I | would scrump |
| you | would scrump |
| he;she;it | would scrump |
| we | would scrump |
| you | would scrump |
| they | would scrump |
Perfect
| I | would have scrumped |
| you | would have scrumped |
| he;she;it | would have scrumped |
| we | would have scrumped |
| you | would have scrumped |
| they | would have scrumped |
Imperative
| you | scrump |
| we | Let's scrump |
| you | scrump |
Verbs conjugated like 'scrump'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'scrump'
crump,
scramp,
scrimp,
chump,
clump,
cramp,
crimp,
crumb,
frump,
grump,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
From a dialectal variation of scrimp, probably from Middle Dutch or Middle Low German schrimpen (“to shrivel up, shrink”), ultimately from Proto-Germanic *skrimpaną, *skrimbaną (“to shrink”), related to Old English sċrimman (“to shrink, draw up, contract”). Related to dialectal English skrammed (“benumbed, paralysed”), English shrimp. See: Proto-Germanic '
*skrimpaną', English '
skrammed', English '
shrimp'.
Sample Sentences
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(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:]
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[1997, Caradog Prichard, translated by Philip Mitchell, One Moonlit Night, page 18:]
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[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.
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I told myself I'd never scrump gooseberries again, or go scrumping apples with Huw and Moi ... [2000, Bill Oddie, Gripping Yarns, page 12:]
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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:]