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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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
Do anything but squabble for a place, Or push or shove or scrouge, or breathe out loud, Or chew wet, or knead taffy in my beard!—
From The Book of Joyous Children by Vawter, Will
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
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
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
The paired-off cave-dwellers merely scowled on us as we scrouged past them to a vacant bench in a far corner.
From Europe Revised by Cobb, Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury)
You set 'round about, an' git scrouged out.
From Negro Folk Rhymes Wise and Otherwise: With a Study by Talley, Thomas Washington
All the station was scrouging round us by this time—pawters & clarx and refreshmint people and all.
From Burlesques by Thackeray, William Makepeace
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.
The pig followed it, scrouging under the fence, and squealing intermittently.
From The Corner House Girls at School by Owen, R. Emmett (Robert Emmett)
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.
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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