scrouge

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  1. To squeeze; press; crowd. [Prov. Eng. and U. S.] You know what I am—a good, stiddy-going, hard-working farmer, shore to get my sheer of what's to be had in the world without scrouging anybody else. E. Eggleston, The Graysons, xxxiii.

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  1. Also Scrooge, scrudge, early modern English also scruze, scruse; dial. forms, terminally assibilated, of *scrug, shrug, with sense partly imported from crowd: see shrug.
 

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