Scrouge
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /skɹaʊd͡ʒ/ · Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Scrouge is a verb meaning (UK, dialect and US, colloquial, transitive) To crowd; to squeeze.
Meaning
(UK, dialect and US, colloquial, transitive) To crowd; to squeeze.
Example Sentences
I look for veiled eyes or bodies scrouged into a seat in an alien world.
We stayed up till eleven, sitting on the stairs, on the floor, and scrouged into the day room, surrounded by stacks of GI clothes.
Well, pretty soon the whole town was there, squirming and scrouging and pushing and shoving to get at the window and have a look[…]
Word Forms
- scrouges
- scrouging
- scrouged
- scrooge
- scrowdge
- scrudge
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include scrunge, scruze, scur, scrounge, scab, scramp.
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