malagruze

present singular third person malagruzes · participle present malagruzing · participle past malagruzed · past malagruzed · alternative malagarouse · alternative malagrooze

1. ScotlandarchaicTo cause havoc to; to disarrange, put into disarray.

   the storms came malagarousing the trees down the length and breadth of the shrilling Howe.

   1933, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Cloud Howe (A Scots Quair), Polygon, published 2006, page 276

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   "Why remember those nasty centuries when honest folk were queered, pestered and malagroozed by clanjamfries of greedy gangsters who called themselves governments and stock exchanges?"

   1994, Alasdair Gray, A History Maker