sting v Cp OED ~ v1 2 d 'to rob or cheat' obs (1812, 1823); PARTRIDGE. To purloin; collect or gather surreptitiously; BUCK v.
1931 BYRNES 161 "The Old Picket Fence": Oh, don't you remember the days we went 'stingin" / The turnips, the apples, from Graham McNeil's. 1964 Evening Telegram 26 May, p. 2 Seems an awful price we had to pay f'r stingin' one apple. 1970 Daily News 13 July, p. 4 Those who still recall their youth are aware that a young turnip, 'stung' from a farmer's field and eaten raw, was a delight. P 245-77 Late in the summer we'd creep under the fence around the farmer's field in the evening stingin' rumpers.
