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▪ I. scrum, n.|skrʌm|
[Abbreviated form of scrummage.]
1. Rugby Football. = scrimmage n. 4. Also ellipt. for scrum-half.
1888Pall Mall G. 22 May 11/2 The Englishmen are particularly weak behind the ‘scrum’. 1921[see fly n.2 1 e]. 1930R. Campbell Poems 11 See the fat nouns like porky forwards sprawl Into a scrum that never heels the ball. 1978Church Times 23 Mar. 7/3 He pictured that duty as being like a forward's in a rugger scrum; he must put his head down and shove blindly.
Comb.1896Allbutt's Syst. Med. I. 652 The impetigo or scrum-pox of Rugby football players..seems to be traced to chafing by jerseys infested with pyogenetic cocci.
2. transf. A confused, noisy throng (at a social function or the like).
1950J. Cannan Murder Included ii. 23, I kept wondering where you were..in that awful scrum. 1959P. Moyes Dead Men don't Ski i. 11 The handsome, fair-haired young man emerged from the scrum at the bar. 1965P. O'Donnell Modesty Blaise iii. 32 She looked towards the manœuvring scrum at the bar. 1976Eastern Daily Press (Norwich) 19 Nov. 1/4 Cindy, as the new Miss World likes to be called, was surrounded by the traditional scrum of over 100 press photographers. 1979Globe & Mail (Toronto) 4 May 9/5 But he warned reporters after the second scrum yesterday, ‘We're going to have to stop having these impromptu press conferences.’
3. Comb., as scrum-cap, a cap worn to protect the head in a scrum; scrum-half, the half-back who puts the ball into the scrum; also, by extension, the scrum-half's position in a team.
1917Harrods General Catal. 449/4 Scrum Caps. All Crochet Work, 3/3 each; all netting, 2/0 each; and Padded Ear Caps, 2/6. 1933C. Day Lewis Magnetic Mountain in Coll. Poems (1935) 118 But will it suffice To wear a scrum-cap against falling skies? 1976Field 18 Nov. 986/2 The headgear is authentic—more sensible than the top-hats once worn, less so than the scrum-caps which some favour now.
1906Gallagher & Stead Compl. Rugby Footballer v. 69 Wallace played in every position except that of scrum half. 1922Somerset County Herald 11 Feb. 4/3 As scrum-half [he] manfully overcame his disadvantage in weight. 1951Sport 30 Mar.–5 Apr. 6/3 Another surprise ‘cap’ is that of Ike Proctor at scrum-half. 1978Rugby World Apr. 3/2 The most exciting confrontation that day will be the scrum-half battle between Gareth Edwards and Jérôme Gallion.
▪ II. scrum, v.|skrʌm|
[f. the n.]
intr. To jostle, crowd.
1925A. S. M. Hutchinson One Increasing Purpose i. xxv. 153 The trouble with me is..feeding and frivoling at night and weekends where the masters live and where we scrum at shows. 1938P. Lawlor House of Templemore ix. 98 Young calves ‘scrumming’ to dip their heads in the long troughs of milk. 1939G. Greene Confidential Agent i. i. 3 A rugger team was returning home and they scrummed boisterously for their glasses. 1948C. Day Lewis Otterbury Incident iv. 49 Everyone was scrumming around behind him.
[f. the n.]
1. intr. Rugby Football. With down: to form or engage in a scrummage. Also transf.
1922E. Raymond Tell England i. ii. 41 Three of us placed our shoulders against the lower end, while the rest scrummed down, Rugby fashion, in row upon row behind one another. 1982Financial Times 18 Dec. 13/3 Well, he seems all right, but would you like to scrum down with him? 1989Ibid. 24 Apr. 24/4 Long before their new partnership was even dreamt of, the two men scrummed down together for University College, Dublin, later competing on opposite teams in senior club rugby.
2. Without const.a. Rugby Football. To scrummage.
1937Partridge Dict. Slang 740/1 Scrum, to scrimmage: C. 20: Rugby Football coll. 1949Rugby League Gaz. Nov. 5/2 The referee..ordered the nonplussed players to scrum opposite the linesman while that worthy continued to flag ‘ball-back’. 1981N.Y. Times 23 Sept. a1/1 While the players scrummed and kicked in the mud, the shouts of 1,000 demonstrators confined to a knoll 100 yards away reached the field. 1987Rugby World & Post Mar. 16/2 (Advt.), We have been unable to scrum the way we want to scrum because people have been injured.
b. transf. To jostle, crowd.
1925A. S. M. Hutchinson One Increasing Purpose i. xxv. 153 The trouble with me is..feeding and frivoling at night and weekends where the masters live and where we scrum at shows. 1938P. Lawlor House of Templemore ix. 98 Young calves ‘scrumming’ to dip their heads in the long troughs of milk. 1939G. Greene Confidential Agent i. i. 3 A rugger team was returning home and they scrummed boisterously for their glasses. 1948C. Day Lewis Otterbury Incident iv. 49 Everyone was scrumming around behind him.
▪ III. scrum, a.|skrʌm|
School and College slang abbrev. of scrumptious a. ? Obs.
1895W. C. Gore in Inlander Nov. 65 Scrum, prob. from scrumptious, with which it is synonymous. 1913J. Vaizey College Girl xviii. 250 ‘Good cakes?’ ‘Scrum!’ |
