scrumping
Stealing apples — specifically from someone else's orchard.
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Born ~1800 · 2 years of recorded useSeen in the wild
Photograph: Marcus J leith Photographer/Marcus J Leith This article is more than **9 years old** # Fruit scrumping, cavaliers and filth in Westminster – the week in art This article is more than 9 years old Jorge Oter…
Photograph: Jim Wileman This article is more than **16 years old** # Modern manners: scrumping This article is more than 16 years old Would you be happy for people to scrump your unharvested produce?
Definitions
Stealing apples — specifically from someone else's orchard. West Country tradition. By extension, any small fruit theft.
"Used to go scrumping as kids."
“Photograph: Marcus J leith Photographer/Marcus J Leith This article is more than **9 years old** # Fruit scrumping, cavaliers and filth in Westminster – the week in art This article is more than 9 years old Jorge Otero-Pailos’ astonishing The Ethics of Dust opens in the Palace of Westminster, removing dirt – but not shame – from parliament.”
“Photograph: Jim Wileman This article is more than **16 years old** # Modern manners: scrumping This article is more than 16 years old Would you be happy for people to scrump your unharvested produce?”
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