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scrowdge

scrowdge is the alternative form 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

Forms of scrowdge

third-person singular presentscrowdges
present participlescrowdging
past participlescrowdged
pastscrowdged

Questions about scrowdge

What is scrowdge the alternative form of?
Scrowdge is the alternative form of scrouge.

Words near scrowdge in the dictionary

  1. scrounging out
  2. scrounging up
  3. scroungings
  4. scroungy
  5. scrow
  6. scrowdge
  7. scrowdged
  8. scrowdges
  9. scrowdging
  10. scrowge
  11. scrowged

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Adapted from Wiktionary: scrowdge (page history and authors); scrouge (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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