scouch

Verb

scouch (third-person singular simple present scouches, present participle scouching, simple past and past participle scouched)

1. (dialectal, intransitive, Northampton) To stoop.
   • You'll hit your head agen the beam, if you don't scouch.
   • Of course, Little Bun did cry some when he couldn't find his Ma and Pa. He scouched down in the grass and the tears trickled down his cocious nose in a little stream that fell on Mr. Grasshopper, who was dozing among the leaves […]1916, Stanton Davis Kirkham, Half-True Stories, page 87