scrooch
Americanverb (used without object)
verb
Etymology
Origin of scrooch
1835–45; apparently variant of scrouge, influenced in meaning by crouch
Example Sentences
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“Oh,” sez he, “I mean to do it sly; I could scrooch down and pretend to be fixin’ my shues.”
From Around the World with Josiah Allen's Wife by Marietta Holley
Do ye think, Sandy, that ye could scrooch out o' bed an' hump yerself over to them?
From The Primrose Ring by Ruth Sawyer
When they put out a hand to feel her condition she would "scrooch" down her back, or bend this way or that, as if the hand were a branding iron.
From The Galaxy Vol. 23, No. 1 by Various
Before I could see what would happen next, Mister Shepherd pulled me back from the aisle and had me scrooch down under a bench.
From Great Jehoshaphat and Gully Dirt! by Jewell Ellen Smith
When they put out a hand to feel her condition she would "scrooch" down her back, or bend this way or that, as if the hand were a branding-iron.
From Birds and Poets : with Other Papers by John Burroughs
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