scrump

English

'Scrumpers'
Henry Towneley Green
(1867)

From mid-19th-century dialect scrump (“withered apple”).

scrump (third-person singular simple present scrumps, present participle scrumping, simple past and past participle scrumped)

To steal fruit, especially apples, from a garden or orchard.
- 1994, Edward Bond, Edward Bond Letters: Vol 1, page 180
  (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!...)
- 1997, Caradog Prichard, ‎Philip Mitchell, One Moonlit Night - Page 18
  I told myself I'd never scrump gooseberries again, or go scrumping apples with Huw and Moi […]

to steal fruit, especially apples, from a garden or orchard