scrouge

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Uncertain. Possibly related to shrug.

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scrouge (third-person singular simple present scrouges, present participle scrouging, simple past and past participle scrouged)

  1. (UK, dialect and US, colloquial, transitive) To crowd; to squeeze.
    • 1884 December 10, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: (Tom Sawyer’s Comrade) , London: Chatto & Windus, , →OCLC:
      Well, pretty soon the whole town was there, squirming and scrouging and pushing and shoving to get at the window and have a look […]
    • 1983, Judson R. Landis, Sociology: concepts and characteristics:
      I look for veiled eyes or bodies scrouged into a seat in an alien world.
    • 2001, Aileen Kilgore Henderson, Stateside Soldier: Life in the Women's Army Corps, 1944-1945, page 12:
      We stayed up till eleven, sitting on the stairs, on the floor, and scrouged into the day room, surrounded by stacks of GI clothes.

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