scrump

(skrəmp)

tv. & in. to copulate [with] someone. (Usually objectionable.) The movie showed a scene of some woman scrumping her lover.

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Mr Thorne, Northumberland County Councillor for the Shilbottle ward, had visited as a child to deliver milk and scrump apples.

Historic country house is sold

As the son of a dairy farmer in Northumberland, Trevor Thorne visited Embleton Hall as a child to deliver milk and scrump apples.

Former hotelier puts hall up for sale; Businessman who returned north set to sell historic country house

AS a boy Trevor Thorne regularly scaled the walls of Embleton Hall to scrump an apple or two from its orchard.

Style and splendour

We lived next-door-but-one to the Parkgate Hotel, which had an orchard at the front where I learned to climb trees and scrump with the boys.

Life in the Suburbs... TO mark the reprint and rerelease of local historian David McGrory's The Illustrated History of Coventry Suburbs we asked for your memories of life growing up in the city

Meanwhile, their brothers disappeared straight after breakfast, spent all day playing Tarzan or 'Forin Leejun' in the woods with breaks to scrump apples or try to capture stray horses, returning at dusk.

If your mother knew..

I don't really need to be near many shops or anything - being in the trade, I've got a pretty well-stocked kitchen and there will always be orchards along the way to scrump a bucket of plums, and later apples, blackberries.

Weekend: Canal knowledge; Birmingham's canals have enjoyed a renaissance in the past 30 years. Andrew Davies talks to a selection of people who live or work on our West Midland waterways

Alas, kids don't scrump apples nowadays: the rush of spiriting away manky fruit doesn't hold a candle to hot-wiring a vehicle.

Not even scrumpers want our grubby apples

WHEN I was a child, I went with my brother and his friend into a neighbour's garden to scrump apples.

Letter: Too soft on child criminals

You always used to scrump the best fruit - and for city folk, that meant pinching it while the owner wasn't looking.

Living: In The Garden - Just Scrumptious!; Enjoying the fruits of your hard work GET fruity with me in the garden this summer! Whether it's apples, strawberries or raspberries, there's no time to lose

A fresh-faced boy in school uniform scrumps from the bowl, in a serendipitous reincarnation of the Luttrell Psalter thief.

SEXING UP THE CHERRY: The symbolic meaning of the cherry has changed significantly over time--as a look at medieval pilgrim badges and psalters, Renaissance paintings, and modern pop videos suggests

He ends with "But 'Cheer up,' my Scrumps, this will all end soon, and we shall be together again and carry on the old life once more.

Music reviews

Ah, a bag of scrumps from our local fish and chip shop

War-time kids still had so much fun; FEEDBACK

Do you remember buying a pennyworth (old pennies that is) of scrumps (scraps of batter from fried fish) from the local fish and chip shop Buying hot crusty cobs for a penny from the local bakery one penny bottles of dandelion & burdock and sarsaparilla from the pop shop around the corner the man on a bike with a large box on the back who would open up the box to display a grinding wheel, offering to sharpen knives for one penny and scissors for two pence playing mob, kick the tin, whip and top and rat tat ginger in the street?