I really love the British.
They have great fashion sense, great personalities, and AMAZING accents. So, when I came across this word, I had to use it in the first....
TREMENDOUS TERM THURSDAY!!!!
This was inspired by Dictionary Day, which, I believe, can spread its magic more than once every year! Every Thursday I will choose a really cool (or thought provoking) word, define it, give some background info, and so on and so forth. The template is as follows:
scrump (v.) [SKRUMP] — British: to steal fruit from an orchard or garden
Did you know that when they say "fruit", they are most likely referring to apples? So, if you stole some peaches from an orchard in Byron, you would not be scrumping. But, if you picked an apple off of your neighbor's apple tree, then you would be guilty of this first-class felony. Shame.
Ok. Scrump doesn't quite count as a word. It's really a "dialect variant" from the word "scrimp", which means: to be economical or sparing in the use of. It's like saying that chillax is a real word in our language. We know what it means, but if someone hadn't lived in our country for very long heard it used in a conversation, they wouldn't have the slightest idea what we were saying.
Don't scrump, ladies and gentlemen!
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