Definitions
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- v. Present participle of scrouge.
Etymologies
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Examples
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All the station was scrouging round us by this time — pawters & clarx and refreshmint people and all.
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I paid my five dollars, and by pushing and scrouging I finally got my quart.
"Co. Aytch" Maury Grays, First Tennessee Regiment or, A Side Show of the Big Show
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Heap of poor white people scrouging in there too all together.
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I seed a whole drove of colored folks pushin 'and scrouging in there so feared they wouldn't get the best seat an' miss somepin.
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There was such a scrouging that I could not get near them.
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Justabout (Certainly, extremely): "I justabout did enjoy myself up at the Cristial Palace on the Forresters 'day, but there was a terr'ble gurt crowd; I should think there must have been two or three hundred people a-scrouging about."
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It must have been a ticklish task to have a half hundred little geese under one's single garment scrouging and crowding for warmth.
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The pig followed it, scrouging under the fence, and squealing intermittently.
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In front of the clothing shop three doors south of him no special congestion of traffic revealed itself; no scrouging knot of citizens was to be seen, and by that Trencher reasoned that the negro had been taken elsewhere by his captors -- very probably to where the body would still be lying, hunched up in the shadow before the Jollity's side doors.
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Though there were crowds all along the route followed by the wedding party, there was no scrouging, no shoving, no fighting, no disorderly scramble, no unseemly congestion about the chapel where the ceremony took place.
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