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SCRUMP
Definition of SCRUMP
noun
Anything small or undersized.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Another sense
SCRUMP carries a second meaning.
verb
To steal fruit, especially apples, from a garden or orchard.
Where it comes from
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.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
4 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
6th
of 58 source languages in OUTLIER
4.2%
of traced words share this origin (1,213)
branch · 22.3% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, SCRUMP · 3 relatives in the game
SCRUMP in a sentence
“There are lettuces whose stalks are still wet with milky sap, carrots straight from the ground and apples like those you used to scrump from a neighbour's garden.”
Observer Food Monthly Awards 2011 Best Newcomer: Maltby Street, 2011
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
SCRUMP in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 47 boards so far. 106 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 19, 8 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 144, 11 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 19, 8 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
SCRUMP starts with S and ends with P. Sorted, its letters read CMPRSU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start SCRUMP
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 19
Could you have found SCRUMP?
OUTLIER is a daily word game. One grid, the same grid for everybody, and the words nobody else spots are the ones that pay. This word was on Day 19 - and most players walked straight past it.
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