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scrudge

scrudge 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 scrudge

third-person singular presentscrudges
present participlescrudging
past participlescrudged
pastscrudged

Questions about scrudge

What is scrudge the alternative form of?
Scrudge is the alternative form of scrouge.

Words near scrudge in the dictionary

  1. scrubwomen
  2. scrubwood
  3. scrubwoods
  4. scrubwren
  5. scrubwrens
  6. scrudge
  7. scrudged
  8. scrudges
  9. scrudging
  10. scrue
  11. scruff

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: scrudge (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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