verb
General Slang
scrumpin
· verb · brummie
Nicking apples (or any fruit) straight off someone else's tree.
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Definitions
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The time-honoured kid's crime of climbing into someone's garden or orchard and pinching fruit off the trees. Apples mostly, but pears and plums count. Less theft, more rite of passage — every Brummie of a certain age has a scrumpin story.
“We went scrumpin down Mrs Hodge's orchard and got chased halfway back to Selly Oak.”
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scrumpin In A Sentence
We went scrumpin down Mrs Hodge's orchard and got chased halfway back to Selly Oak.
Origin & Usage
From 'scrump' — a dialect word for a small or windfall apple, ultimately related to 'scrimp'. Used across the West Midlands and West Country.
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