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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“I think we ought to scrouge down under something until the snow stops.”
From The Corner House Girls Snowbound by Grace Brooks Hill
Then they would scrouge against each other like a couple of country schoolboys, to see who should get ahead.
From The Trail of the Goldseekers A Record of Travel in Prose and Verse by Hamlin Garland
I says to Jim and Mr. Castle last week, 'I hain't a aimin' to let you scrouge up and burn up my terbaccer.'
From The Tobacco Tiller A Tale of the Kentucky Tobacco Fields by Sarah Bell Hackley
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
"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
‘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
To cut a long story short, nobody 'ad any more breakfast, and no time to do anything until them two men was scrouged up in a corner an' 'eld there unable to move.
From Light Freights by W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs
Henrietta scrouged down at my feet, and I fearingly, but accommodatingly, accepted the other twin.
From The Tinder-Box by Maria Thompson Daviess
"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
The pig followed it, scrouging under the fence, and squealing intermittently.
From The Corner House Girls at School by R. Emmett (Robert Emmett) Owen
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
All the station was scrouging round us by this time—pawters & clarx and refreshmint people and all.
From Burlesques by William Makepeace Thackeray
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
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
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