scrooch

Or scrootch

[skrooch]

verb (used without object)

Chiefly Midland and Southern U.S.

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

scrooch

/ skruːtʃ /

verb

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

Word History and Origins

Origin of scrooch¹

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

Example Sentences

"Scrooch low!" he whispered, "and follow me as softly as you can."

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Bullets failed to stop them: conductors would draw the window blinds and tell passengers to scrooch down away from the glass.

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"Well,—I'm not going to sit here gazing at that cake another minute,—please give me a slice, Nancy, sugar-pie, lambkin,—just a wee little scrooch of it," begged Alma, snuffing the handsome chocolate masterpiece of Nancy's culinary skill.

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“All ye’ve got to do, Patsy, is to be puttin’ your boots beside your chair onct more, an’ them legs will scrooch comfortably into them an’ never haunt ye again.

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He scrooch down dis a way, so he kin look in de suller." said Julius, bending forward until his back was nearly on a level with the gunwales of the boat, "an' I whack him behine de ear, an' he drap so quick he don't know what hit him.

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