Scrouge
Origin
Uncertain.
Full definition of scrouge
Verb
- (UK, dialect and US, colloquial) To crowd; to squeeze.
- Walter BlairWell, pretty soon the whole town was there, squirming and scrouging and pushing and shoving to get at the window and have a look...
- 1983, Judson R. Landis, Sociology: concepts and characteristicsI look for veiled eyes or bodies scrouged into a seat in an alien world.
- 2001, Aileen Kilgore Henderson, Stateside Soldier: Life in the Women's Army Corps, 1944-1945 (page 12)We stayed up till eleven, sitting on the stairs, on the floor, and scrouged into the day room, surrounded by stacks of GI clothes.