Lexicographical Neighbors of Scrooging
Literary usage of Scrooging
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Queer Folk: Seven Stories by Samuel Edmund Waller (1874)
"Now poor Grub was " scrooging " no where, for the excellent reason that he was
perfectly unable to move a single inch, and was, moreover, in his present ..."
2. Early English Text Society by Early English Text Society (1868)
"... rich men's sons had not only pressed into the Universities, but were scrooging
poor men's sons out of the endowments meant only for the poor, ..."
3. The Babees Book: Aristotle's A B C, Urbanitatis, Stans Puer Ad Mensam, The by Frederick James Furnivall (1868)
"... rich men's sons had not only pressed into the Universities, but were scrooging
poor men's sons out of the endowments meant only for the poor, ..."
4. Anthology and Bibliography of Niagara Falls by Charles Mason Dow (1921)
"... and night found us still *' scrooging on,*' and occasionally stopping and
digging out. Thus we passed by Rochester and the Genesee Falls, ..."
5. An Excursion to California Over the Prairie, Rocky Mountains, and Great by William Kelly (1851)
"&c., which originated a right royal row of the regular " rough and tumble" sort, "
knives, biting, scrooging, ..."
6. The Sunday at Home by Religious Tract Society, Religious Tract Society (Great Britain) (1896)
"... moving of rough and ready people — sounds as natural and inevitable as the
scrooging and grinding together of stones in the bed of a mountain torrent, ..."
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