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scrouge

/skɹaʊd͡ʒ/

scrouge verb: to crowd; to squeeze.

Verb

scrouge (third-person singular simple present scrouges, present participle scrouging, simple past and past participle scrouged)

  1. (UK, US, colloquial, dialectal, transitive) To crowd; to squeeze.
    • Well, pretty soon the whole town was there, squirming and scrouging and pushing and shoving to get at the window and have a look[…]1884 December 10, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: (Tom Sawyer’s Comrade) […], London: Chatto & Windus, […], →OCLC
    • I look for veiled eyes or bodies scrouged into a seat in an alien world.1983, Judson R. Landis, Sociology: concepts and characteristics

Forms of scrouge

third-person singular presentscrouges
present participlescrouging
past participlescrouged
pastscrouged
alternative formscrooge
alternative formscrowdge
alternative formscrudge

Origin of scrouge

Uncertain. Possibly related to shrug.

Questions about scrouge

What does scrouge mean?
Scrouge means to crowd; to squeeze.
What part of speech is scrouge?
Scrouge is a verb.
How do you pronounce scrouge?
Scrouge is pronounced /skɹaʊd͡ʒ/.
What is the past tense of scrouge?
The past tense of scrouge is scrouged.

Words near scrouge in the dictionary

  1. scrotum
  2. scrotum frog
  3. scrotum frogs
  4. scrotumed
  5. scrotums
  6. scrouge
  7. scrouged
  8. scrouger
  9. scrougers
  10. scrouges
  11. scrouging

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