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scrouging

scrouging is the present participle and gerund 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 scrouging

What is scrouging the present participle and gerund of?
Scrouging is the present participle and gerund of scrouge.

Words near scrouging in the dictionary

  1. scrouge
  2. scrouged
  3. scrouger
  4. scrougers
  5. scrouges
  6. scrouging
  7. scround
  8. scrounds
  9. scrounge
  10. scrounge down
  11. scrounge out

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