scrouge

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   chiefly dialectal: to crowd, press, or squeeze into a confined place

   The townspeople pushed and scrouged toward the window for a better look.

An alteration of dialectal scruze, 'to squeeze.' Scrouge has been recorded since the eighteenth century and survives chiefly in regional speech for pressing or crowding together.

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