scrooch

American  

[skrooch] / skrutʃ /

Or scrootch

verb (used without object)

Chiefly Midland and Southern U.S.

1. to crouch, squeeze, or huddle (usually followed by down, in, orup ).

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scrooch British  

/ skruːtʃ /

verb

1. dialect to scratch (the skin) to relieve itching

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Etymology

Origin of scrooch

1835–45; apparently variant of scrouge, influenced in meaning by crouch

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Example Sentences

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scrooch

"The battle's on now, to a finish," muttered Fran despondently, "yet here I sit, and here I scrooch."

From Fran by J. Breckenridge (John Breckenridge) Ellis

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 Birds and Poets : with Other Papers by John Burroughs

“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

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

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