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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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
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
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
He'd have made the young one scrouge himself up dreadful narrow an' wriggle himself free, somehow.
From The Brass Bound Box by Diantha W. Horne
"They'll keep comin' as long as a lean man can scrouge in."
From The Magnetic North by Elizabeth Robins
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
The old man looked at me with his little shiny eyes all scrouged up.
From Happy Hawkins by Robert Alexander Wason
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 W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs
Git up, pup! you’ve scrouged right in hyur in front of the fire.
From Our Southern Highlanders by Horace Kephart
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
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 seems to me, ma'am, that it is you who are scrouging me," Ralph replied.
From One of the 28th A Tale of Waterloo by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
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
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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