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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"You scrouge just like the puppy," was his appreciative comment of her gentle nestling against his little body.
From Rose of Old Harpeth by Daviess, Maria Thompson
"They'll keep comin' as long as a lean man can scrouge in."
From The Magnetic North by Robins, Elizabeth
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 Hall, Benjamin Homer
He'd have made the young one scrouge himself up dreadful narrow an' wriggle himself free, somehow.
From The Brass Bound Box by Horne, Diantha W.
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
‘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
I s'pose maybe he is, but the po' little thing mus' feel sort o' scrouged with 'em, ef he's got 'em all—the Joneses' an' the Simses'.
From Sonny, a Christmas Guest by Stuart, Ruth McEnery
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 Jacobs, W. W. (William Wymark)
Nurse Jinny Jones and me scrouged into the pit one night without paying, "pertendin'," as we were in uniform, we had come to take out a "Lydy" that had fainted.
From Condensed Novels: New Burlesques by Harte, Bret
All the station was scrouging round us by this time—pawters & clarx and refreshmint people and all.
From Burlesques by Thackeray, William Makepeace
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
"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 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
The pig followed it, scrouging under the fence, and squealing intermittently.
From The Corner House Girls at School by Owen, R. Emmett (Robert Emmett)
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