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 Hill, Grace Brooks
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.
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
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 Hackley, Sarah Bell
De little chillun would scrouge around wid deir tin cups and dip into de pan for de bean, pea, or turnip pot liquor.
From Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves South Carolina Narratives, Part 2 by Work Projects Administration
‘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
Henrietta scrouged down at my feet, and I fearingly, but accommodatingly, accepted the other twin.
From The Tinder-Box by Daviess, Maria Thompson
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 Cobb, Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury)
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)
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)
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.
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
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 Cobb, Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury)
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