Lexicographical Neighbors of Scrooged
Literary usage of Scrooged
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Fourth Reader by Hannah Theresa McManus, John Henry Haaren (1917)
"So he scraped and scratched and scrabbled and scrooged, and then he scrooged
again and scrabbled and scratched and scraped, working busily with his little ..."
2. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1880)
"... you'm glad enough to be where you bain't scrooged up for elbow-room, and 's
able to draw a breath o' air without waitin' your turn to do it in. Awh ! ..."
3. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1828)
"... scrooged" Norry, drest in all her best, under his arm, and sported, in his
button-hole, a little bouquet, of her own gathering and arranging, there. ..."
4. The Best Short Stories of ... and the Yearbook of the American Short Story edited by Edward Joseph Harrington O'Brien (1918)
"Jo scrooged around, still keeping his place. He looked down. And upturned to him
in agonized appeal was the face of little Emily. They stared at each other ..."
5. Graham's Magazine by Graham, George R, Edgar Allan Poe, John Davis Batchelder Collection (Library of Congress) (1852)
"... for good luck ; but some has no nature in 'em ; and the poor baste bobbing at
you, as if you had never scrooged him into a pancake. There, go along, do; ..."
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