scrump

vt. (从树上)偷摘(尤指苹果)

发音

UK /ˈskɹʌmp/
其它

词形变化

scrumps 复数 scrumped scrumping scrumps 三单 scrumps scrumping 现在分词 scrumped 过去式 scrumped 过去分词

别名

skrump skrimp

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    Anything small or undersized.

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  2. 2.

    A withered, shrivelled, or undergrown person.

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  3. 3.

    A small apple.

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v.
  1. 1.

    To gather windfalls or small apples left on trees.

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  2. 2.

    To steal fruit, especially apples, from a garden or orchard.

  3. 3.

    To pinch, stint; to beat down in price.

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  4. 4.

    To have sex.

    过时 俚语

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词源

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.

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