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scrooch, v. dial. and colloq. (orig. and chiefly U.S.).|skruːtʃ|
Also scrouch.
[Dialectal var. of scrouge v., perh. reinforced (in later uses) by crouch v.1; see also scrinch v., scringe v.1 and scrunch v.]
1. intr. = scrouge v. 1 b, c; to crouch or bend. Freq. with down. Also fig.
1844‘J. Slick’ High Life N.Y. II. xxix. 196 When she did kinder start up, it was jest to scrouch a leetle closer to me than she was afore. 1869[see cut v. 21 d]. 1884‘Mark Twain’ Huck. Finn ii. 8 We scrouched down and laid still. 1922Joyce Ulysses 734 Scrooching down on me like that all the time with his big hipbones. 1948A. Lomax in A. Dundes Mother Wit (1973) 475/2 Natchez scrooched up on the step. 1955Time 14 Nov. 116/2 The focus scrooches down pretty quickly on the kind of hot grits that generally go with the greens Hollywood loves best. 1956B. Cleary Fifteen i. 31 He was..tall enough so a medium-sized girl could..not feel she had to scrooch down when she walked beside him.
2. trans. = scrouge v. 1 d.
1929[implied in scrooched ppl. a.]. 1958C. McCullers Square Root of Wonderful ii. 90 When I hear the words agony or labor, it makes me scrooch up my behind.
Hence scrooched ppl. a.; ˈscrooching vbl. n.; ˈscroochy a., characterized by scrooching, cowering.
1844‘J. Slick’ High Life N.Y. II. 229 The white figger at t'other eend the entry was..lookin kinder scroochy. 1885H. M. Jackson Zeph ii. 71 Sittin' all scrouched into a heap. 1929W. Faulkner Sartoris iv. 282 He right dar now, watchin' dis lantern wid his eyes scrooched up. 1941B. A. Williams Strange Woman vii. 521 Will accused him of scrooching down to make the hole seem deeper than it was. 1957E. Eager Magic by Lake vii. 158 He marched to his appointed jar (which happened to be the one in which Katharine sat scrooched). |