scrouge

[ skrouj, skrooj ]

verb (used with or without object)

, scrouged, scrouging.

1. to squeeze; crowd.

scrouge

/ skruːdʒ; skraʊdʒ /

verb

1. dialect.
   tr to crowd or press

Word History and Origins

Origin of scrouge¹

First recorded in 1820–30; blend of obsolete scruze (itself blend of screw and bruise ) and gouge

Word History and Origins

Origin of scrouge¹

C18: alteration of C16 scruze to squeeze, perhaps blend of screw + squeeze

Example Sentences

Yet it is not only about protecting inmates from the coronavirus scrouge, but also the many men and women who are tasked with keeping the facilities – and thus the broader communities – safe.

From Fox News

The Ebenezer Temperance Society seeks a donation, and Dickens exclaims, “I’d like to screw and bruise them, scrouge and scruze them!”

From New York Times

There's also a new microprocessor controlled direct-drive system which eliminates something called "cogging," a scrouge so terrible that Technics devotes a full paragraph to it in the press release.

From The Verge

“I think we ought to scrouge down under something until the snow stops.”

From Project Gutenberg

I could feel nary a ground-hog in it, and then I began to hitch back feet foremost, but one hitch was all I could make, for just as I was making the second scrouge out, a knot, or a sharp sliver, or somethin’ catched into the seat of my britches, and held me as tight as a wedge.

From Project Gutenberg