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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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 Thomas Chandler Haliburton
"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 Margaret Sidney
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
“I think we ought to scrouge down under something until the snow stops.”
From The Corner House Girls Snowbound by Grace Brooks Hill
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 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
Git up, pup! you’ve scrouged right in hyur in front of the fire.
From Our Southern Highlanders by Horace Kephart
"I said I'd do it, if you scrouged and pushed, and I must," he answered, with the air of a man performing his duty.
From Five Little Peppers and their Friends by Margaret Sidney
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 Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury) Cobb
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 Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury) Cobb
All the station was scrouging round us by this time—pawters & clarx and refreshmint people and all.
From Burlesques by William Makepeace Thackeray
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
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
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
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