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scrouged

scrouged is the simple past and past participle of scrouge.

Meaning of scrouge

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

Questions about scrouged

What is scrouged the simple past and past participle of?
Scrouged is the simple past and past participle of scrouge.

Words near scrouged in the dictionary

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

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