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
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
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 Grace Brooks Hill
Fall in behind me, boys, and don't scrouge.
From They of the High Trails by Hamlin Garland
"You scrouge just like the puppy," was his appreciative comment of her gentle nestling against his little body.
From Rose of Old Harpeth by Maria Thompson Daviess
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
Henrietta scrouged down at my feet, and I fearingly, but accommodatingly, accepted the other twin.
From The Tinder-Box by Maria Thompson Daviess
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 Bret Harte
She scrouged herself over into her own corner and laughed a scornful laugh.
From Tripping with the Tucker Twins by Nell Speed
I could feel myself scrouging as we passed, going with great deliberation.
From The Car That Went Abroad Motoring Through the Golden Age by Albert Bigelow Paine
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
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 Sam R. Watkins
The pig followed it, scrouging under the fence, and squealing intermittently.
From The Corner House Girls at School by R. Emmett (Robert Emmett) Owen
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