scrouge

present singular third person scrouges · participle present scrouging · participle past scrouged · past scrouged · alternative scrooge · alternative scrowdge · alternative scrudge

1. UKUScolloquialdialectaltransitiveTo crowd; to squeeze.

   I look for veiled eyes or bodies scrouged into a seat in an alien world.

   1983, Judson R. Landis, Sociology: concepts and characteristics

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   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

   We stayed up till eleven, sitting on the stairs, on the floor, and scrouged into the day room, surrounded by stacks of GI clothes.

   2001, Aileen Kilgore Henderson, Stateside Soldier: Life in the Women's Army Corps, 1944-1945, page 12