Meanings
verbscruze (third-person singular simple present scruzes, present participle scruzing, simple past and past participle scruzed)
present singular third person scruzes · participle present scruzing · participle past scruzed · past scruzed
- dialectalTo squeeze.
with her right the riper fruit did reach, / Whose sappy liquor, that with fulnesse sweld, / Into her cup she scruzd […]
1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
Origin
Perhaps an irregular blend of screw + squeeze.
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scruze. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/scruze
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Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “scruze,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/scruze.
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