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scooched

scooched is the simple past and past participle of scooch.

Meaning of scooch

Verb

scooch (third-person singular simple present scooches, present participle scooching, simple past and past participle scooched)

  1. (US) To shift, move aside, or scoot over.
    • "We could watch it all night," Joselle would add, scooching closer to her mother. "If it was on all night."1992, Kevin Henkes, Words of Stone
  2. To crouch.
    • Thinks I to myself, “Sol, you're run off your course again. This is a rich man's summer ‘cottage’[…].” So I started to back away again into the bushes. But I hadn't backed more'n a couple of yards when I see something so amazing that I couldn't help scooching down behind the bayberries and looking...1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter I, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC

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What is scooched the simple past and past participle of?
Scooched is the simple past and past participle of scooch.

Words near scooched in the dictionary

  1. Scooby Snacks
  2. Scooby-Doo
  3. Scooby-Doos
  4. scooch
  5. scooch over
  6. scooched
  7. scooched over
  8. scooches
  9. scooches over
  10. scooching
  11. scooching over

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