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Definition of Scrouged
1. scrouge [v] - See also: scrouge
Lexicographical Neighbors of Scrouged
| scrouge scrouged (current term) scrouger scrougers scrouges scrouging scrounge scrounge up scrounged scrounger | scroungers scrounges scroungier scroungiest scrounging scroungy |
Literary usage of Scrouged
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Red Cross Magazine by American national Red cross (1917)
"Marster wuz in thet box, an' we an' the dawgs scrouged close to it 'cause ...
"We scrouged there close against the box, me and Frances an' li'l Scott,,big ..."
2. A History of Northeast Missouri by Walter Williams (1913)
"The good bishop moved over and is said to have wondered if he had "scrouged"
anybody else during his life. But there has been many a fellow ..."
3. Dictionary of Americanisms: A Glossary of Words and Phrases Usually Regarded by John Russell Bartlett (1860)
"The ladies were obliged to stand up and be scrouged until chairs could be brought
... And as the North has took to brustlin', At being scrouged from off the ..."
4. Library of Southern Literature by Edwin Anderson Alderman, Joel Chandler Harris, Charles William Kent (1909)
"I s'pose maybe he is, but the po' little thing mus' feel sort o' scrouged with 'em,
ef he 's got 'em all —the Joneses' an' the Simses'. ..."
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