scrouge en · VERB
Pronunciation
- /skɹaʊd͡ʒ/
Etymology
Uncertain. Possibly related to shrug.
Meanings
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(UK, US, colloquial, dialectal, transitive) To crowd; to squeeze.
We stayed up till eleven, sitting on the stairs, on the floor, and scrouged into the day room, surrounded by stacks of GI clothes.
2001, Aileen Kilgore Henderson, Stateside Soldier: Life in the Women's Army Corps, 1944-1945, page 12:Well, pretty soon the whole town was there, squirming and scrouging and pushing and shoving to get at the window and have a look[…]
1884 December 10, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: (Tom Sawyer’s Comrade) […], London: Chatto & Windus, […], →OCLC:I look for veiled eyes or bodies scrouged into a seat in an alien world.
1983, Judson R. Landis, Sociology: concepts and characteristics:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| scrudge | alternative | lexicographic | |
| scrowdge | alternative | lexicographic | |
| scrooge | alternative | lexicographic | |
| scrouged | Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| scrouged | Tense=Past | lexicographic | |
| scrouging | Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| scrouges | Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres | lexicographic |
Translations (1)
ru толпи́ться (to crowd, to squeeze)