scrump英语原文释义、词形变化、词源和词汇关系

英文释义

名词 n.

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

动词 v.

To gather windfalls or small apples left on trees. dialectal
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! ...)
To pinch, stint; to beat down in price. dialectal
To have sex. dated,slang

词形变化

scrumps plural skrump alternative skrimp alternative scrumps present,singular,third-person scrumping participle,present scrumped participle,past scrumped past skrump alternative skrimp alternative

词汇关系

衍生词

scrump up

词源

词源 1

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.

词源 2

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.