scrunge
/skɹʌnd͡ʒ/
scrunge noun: an inauthentic form of grunge music.
Noun (1)
scrunge (uncountable)
- An inauthentic form of grunge music.
- […] Sun to Sun sure gives the current crop of jingle-jangle scrunge bands the kick in the ass they deserve.1996, SPIN, volume 11, number 11, page 24
Noun (2)
scrunge (plural scrunges)
Verb (1)
scrunge (third-person singular simple present scrunges, present participle scrunging, simple past and past participle scrunged)
- To scour (search) desperately for resources such as food or equipment.
- Hey, wait for me while I scrunge the breakroom.
- For myself, I scrunged a lift in a handsome car to Swiss Cottage and proceeded to buy a camp bed, which, owing to strike demands, Selfridge's were unable to supply.1926, The Bookman - Volume 64, page 43
Verb (2)
scrunge (third-person singular simple present scrunges, present participle scrunging, simple past and past participle scrunged)
- To squeeze; to scrunch.
- I feels th' coal scrunge as I come down an' the exhaust steam hisses as we strikes.1906, Richard Hayes Barry, Sandy from the Sierras, page 172
- To bring his head somewhere down near hers, he slid down and scrunged his bony knees to one side and beneath the music rack on the pew ahead.1949, Frederick Feikema Manfred, The primitive, page 221
Noun (3)
scrunge (countable and uncountable, plural scrunges)
- Scunge; muck; a disgusting and (usually) semiliquid substance.
- Taking the nineteen-pound white Persian into her lap, she kissed his nose, then wiped her lips free of any lingering kitty scrunge with the back of her hand.1992, Echo Heron, Mercy, page 210
- That store, by the way, like most else in Mala Noche, is a scruffy den of half-glimpsed scrunge.1994, Donald Lyons, Independent Visions, page 225
- A scruffy and impoverished individual.
- Other existing films, however, show how funny Mabel could be with Chaplin when she played a scrungy fishwife equal in size and scrunge to his drunken tramp.1992, Betty Harper Fussell, Mabel, page 72
- Although she had spent a full decade and a half of her life doing exactly nothing but look for a man, she still had not found one, not one, in any case, that she ever spoke about with approval, having dated mainly parking attendants, bike messengers with rings in their ears, large-ball bowlers...2007, Alexander Theroux, Laura Warholic: Or, The Sexual Intellectual, page 546
Verb (3)
scrunge (third-person singular simple present scrunges, present participle scrunging, simple past and past participle scrunged)
- To make or become scrungy.
- Can ' t get my million - dollar paws scrunged up .1976, Mary Anderson, F*T*C Superstar, page 125
- Yu'know scrunge up like when rain wet them up.2007, Charles Hyatt, When Me Was a Boy, page 100
Examples of scrunge in a sentence
- I was still at Kitt Peak at the time and I scrunged around to find one.1984, Astronomical Microdensitometry Conference:
- He goes to the back room and scrunges into the corner.1984, New York Sportsman - Volumes 13-15, page 44:
- Your face is all scrunged up and you're pale as a ghost.2016, Al Miller, Who Is Barton T. Jones?: The Farmer in the Bush, page 118:
- We were scrunged up at a small table, at least those of us not dropping folders.2017, Jonathan Gash, The Great California Game:
Forms of scrunge
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | scrunges |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | scrunges |
| present participle | scrunging |
| past participle | scrunged |
| past | scrunged |
Origin of scrunge
Probably a corruption of scrounge.
Possibly a corruption of scrunch.
Blend of scum + grunge.
Words that rhyme with scrunge
Questions about scrunge
- What does scrunge mean?
- Scrunge means an inauthentic form of grunge music.
- How do you use scrunge in a sentence?
- I was still at Kitt Peak at the time and I scrunged around to find one.
- What part of speech is scrunge?
- Scrunge can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce scrunge?
- Scrunge is pronounced /skɹʌnd͡ʒ/.
- What is the plural of scrunge?
- The plural of scrunge is scrunges.
Words near scrunge in the dictionary
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