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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Fall in behind me, boys, and don't scrouge.
From They of the High Trails by Garland, Hamlin
"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
“I think we ought to scrouge down under something until the snow stops.”
From The Corner House Girls Snowbound by Hill, Grace Brooks
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 Garland, Hamlin
"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 Sidney, Margaret
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
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
He fair screamed at the very sight o' the bread, an' he scrouged hisself up in that corner an' put his hands in front of his face.
From Chronicles of Martin Hewitt by Morrison, Arthur
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)
The pig followed it, scrouging under the fence, and squealing intermittently.
From The Corner House Girls at School by Owen, R. Emmett (Robert Emmett)
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)
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 McCutcheon, John T.
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
All the station was scrouging round us by this time—pawters & clarx and refreshmint people and all.
From Burlesques by Thackeray, William Makepeace
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