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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A very long lesson, or any hard or unpleasant task, is usually among students denominated a scrouge.
From A Collection of College Words and Customs by Benjamin Homer Hall
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 Thomas Chandler Haliburton
"They'll keep comin' as long as a lean man can scrouge in."
From The Magnetic North by Elizabeth Robins
Fall in behind me, boys, and don't scrouge.
From They of the High Trails by Hamlin Garland
"You must take your nose away then," said Joel decidedly, "for I'm going to shut the door if you scrouge so."
From Five Little Peppers and their Friends by Margaret Sidney
He was scrouged up in a corner and his legs were trembling.
From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers
‘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
Male passengers, swinging aboard behind her, have already scrouged on by her and taken the vacant places.
From 'Oh, Well, You Know How Women Are!' by Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury) Cobb
"I said I'd do it, if you scrouged and pushed, and I must," he answered, with the air of a man performing his duty.
From Five Little Peppers and their Friends by Margaret Sidney
Henrietta scrouged down at my feet, and I fearingly, but accommodatingly, accepted the other twin.
From The Tinder-Box by Maria Thompson Daviess
The pig followed it, scrouging under the fence, and squealing intermittently.
From The Corner House Girls at School by R. Emmett (Robert Emmett) Owen
Though there were crowds all along the route followed by the wedding party, there was no scrouging, no shoving, no fighting, no disorderly scramble, no unseemly congestion about the chapel where the ceremony took place.
From Europe Revised by Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury) Cobb
It was a proud Moment when he eased in the $7.60 to T. W. Fishberry, who told him to keep on scrouging and some day he would own a share in the Building & Loan.
From Ade's Fables by John T. McCutcheon
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 Sir Harry Hamilton Johnston
"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 G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
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