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▪ I. scrouge, n. colloq. or vulgar.|skruːdʒ, skraʊdʒ|
Also scrowge.
[f. scrouge v.]
1. A crush, squeeze, or crowd.
1839C. Clark J. Noakes cxxiii, Agin these shows, oh, what a scrowge! 1887C. Keene Let. in Life xii. (1892) 383, I went to the Academy ‘Swarry’ last night—the usual scrouge.
2. U.S. (See quot.)
1851B. H. Hall College Words, Scrouge, an exaction. A very long lesson, or any hard and unpleasant task, is usually among students denominated a scrouge.
▪ II. scrouge, v. colloq. or vulgar. Now chiefly U.S.|skruːdʒ, skraʊdʒ|
Also 8–9 skrowdge, 9 scroodge, scrooge, scroudge, scrowge, skrouge.
[App. an onomatopœic alteration of scruze.]
1. a. trans. To incommode by pressing against (a person); to encroach on (a person's) space in sitting or standing; to crowd. Also, to push or squeeze (a thing). Also fig.
1755Johnson s.v. Scruze, This word..is still preserved, at least in its corruption, to scrouge, in the London jargon. 1756W. Toldervy Hist. 2 Orphans III. 198, I assure you, that I am not used to be skrowdged by any man, not even my husband; therefore, pray sit farther from me. 1811Ora & Juliet III. 131, I hope, Miss, I don't scrouge you? 1830Constellation (N.Y.) 11 Sept. 2/5 The room was so completely crowded, that one could not have scrouged the little end of nothing, sharpened, between them. 1840Dickens Old C. Shop xxxix, Kit had hit a man on the head with a handkerchief of apples for ‘scrowdging’ his parent with unnecessary violence. 1868F. J. Furnivall Babees Book p. xxxvi, By Harrison's time, a.d. 1577, rich men's sons had not only pressed into the Universities, but were scrooging poor men's sons out of the endowments meant only for the poor. 1888E. Eggleston Graysons xxxiii. 348 You know what I am—a good, stiddy-going, hard-working farmer, shore to get my sheer of what's to be had in the world without scrouging anybody else. 1896Westm. Gaz. 24 July 7/2 A barrister applied at Westminster Police-court to-day for a summons against a solicitor's clerk, alleged to have ‘scrooged’ applicant when..he tried to obtain a seat at the Drummond Castle inquiry the other day. 1944L. E. Smith Strange Fruit xxix. 362 There'll be lynchings as long as white folks and black folks scrouge each other—everybody scrambling for the same penny.
b. intr. Also fig.
1798Aurora (Philadelphia) 13 Dec. 2/1 Upstairs I scrouged to the front. 1821Egan Life in London viii. (1870) 194 Who's that that scroudges?—you shan't shove my wife. 1873Punch 14 June 247/1 He, like the rest, scrooged and elbowed and leaned forward to see. 1908K. Grahame Wind in Willows i. 2 So he scraped and scratched and scrabbled and scrooged, and then he scrooged again and scrabbled and scratched and scraped, working busily with his little paws. 1949H. Hornsby Lonesome Valley xxviii. 377 He was in the top of a tree that scrouged against the sky, and they were cutting the tree down and he was falling with the tree.
c. To draw oneself into a compact shape. Cf. scrooch v. 1.
1905Dialect Notes III. 64 There I was, all scrooged up in a corner. a1930‘H. Stone’ in Murdoch & Drake-Brockman Austral. Short Stories (1951) 118 Derned if this ben't an errand... Don't see how I be a-goin' to scrooge through, 'tall, 'tall. 1937S. V. Benét in Atlantic Monthly Dec. 685/2 So he sort of scrooged back in a corner and waited his chance. 1948‘La Meri’ Spanish Dancing x. 144 Since there was seldom a sidewalk, one scrooged against their chalky walls to allow the old victoria carriages to pass. 1979G. Swarthout Skeletons 230, I scrooged down in my chair, laid my head back, stretched out my legs.
d. trans. To draw tight; to squeeze or screw up (the eyes, etc.). Cf. scrooch v. 2.
1909R. A. Wason Happy Hawkins 162 The old man looked at me with his little shiny eyes all scrouged up.
2. U.S. (See quot.)
1851B. H. Hall College Words, Scrouge,..said of an instructor who imposes difficult tasks on his pupils.
Hence ˈscrouging vbl. n.
1843B. R. Hall New Purchase II. 59 (Bartlett 1860) After hard scrouging each way some hundred yards, we came together and held a council. 1894Hall Caine Manxman iv. xvi. 263 Such pushing and scrooging, you never seen the like. |