scruze en · VERB
Etymology
Perhaps an irregular blend of screw + squeeze.
Meanings
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(dialectal) To squeeze.
with her right the riper fruit did reach, / Whose sappy liquor, that with fulnesse sweld, / Into her cup she scruzd […]
1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| scruzed | Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| scruzed | Tense=Past | lexicographic | |
| scruzing | Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| scruzes | Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres | lexicographic |