scrouge
Americanverb (used with or without object)
verb
Etymology
Origin of scrouge
First recorded in 1820–30; blend of obsolete scruze (itself blend of screw and bruise ) and gouge
Example Sentences
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It's a tight squeeze sometimes to scrouge between a lie and a truth in business, ain't it?
From Nature and Human Nature by Haliburton, Thomas Chandler
“I think we ought to scrouge down under something until the snow stops.”
From The Corner House Girls Snowbound by Hill, Grace Brooks
Fall in behind me, boys, and don't scrouge.
From They of the High Trails by Garland, Hamlin
And I thought we’d haf to scrouge down over a whisp of fire to-night in the open.
From The Corner House Girls' Odd Find Where they made it, and What the Strange Discovery led to by Hill, Grace Brooks
"They'll keep comin' as long as a lean man can scrouge in."
From The Magnetic North by Robins, Elizabeth
‘Father, suppose you set on Highboy’s lap. I believe you be more comfortable than scrouged up here with us and all this furniture.’
From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers
He was scrouged up in a corner and his legs were trembling.
From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers
He fair screamed at the very sight o' the bread, an' he scrouged hisself up in that corner an' put his hands in front of his face.
From Chronicles of Martin Hewitt by Morrison, Arthur
The old man looked at me with his little shiny eyes all scrouged up.
From Happy Hawkins by Wason, Robert Alexander
She scrouged herself over into her own corner and laughed a scornful laugh.
From Tripping with the Tucker Twins by Speed, Nell
The pig followed it, scrouging under the fence, and squealing intermittently.
From The Corner House Girls at School by Owen, R. Emmett (Robert Emmett)
"It seems to me, ma'am, that it is you who are scrouging me," Ralph replied.
From One of the 28th A Tale of Waterloo by Henty, G. A. (George Alfred)
I paid my five dollars, and by pushing and scrouging I finally got my quart.
From "Co. Aytch" Maury Grays, First Tennessee Regiment or, A Side Show of the Big Show by Watkins, Sam R.
I could feel myself scrouging as we passed, going with great deliberation.
From The Car That Went Abroad Motoring Through the Golden Age by Paine, Albert Bigelow
She had become hardened to pushing and scrouging, so that the struggle to get a seat in one of the fifty or sixty race trains leaving Waterloo or Victoria left her comparatively calm.
From Mrs. Warren's Daughter A Story of the Woman's Movement by Johnston, Harry Hamilton, Sir
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