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单词 scrouge
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scrougen.

/skruːdʒ//skraʊdʒ/
Forms: Also scrowge.
Etymology: < scrouge v.
colloquial or vulgar.
1. A crush, squeeze, or crowd.
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the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being gathered together > an assemblage or collection > [noun] > of people or animals > regarded as a whole or a body of people gathered > large or numerous > densely packed together
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shockc1430
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gregation1621
frequence1671
push1718
munga1728
mampus?c1730
squeezer1756
squeeze1779
crush1806
cram1810
parrock1811
mass1814
scrouge1839
squash1884
1839 C. Clark John Noakes & Mary Styles 24 Agin these shows, oh, what a scrowge!
1887 C. Keene Let. in G. S. Layard Life & Lett. C. S. Keene (1892) xii. 383 I went to the Academy ‘Swarry’ last night—the usual scrouge.
2. U.S. (See quot. 1851.)
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1851 B. H. Hall Coll. College Words Scrouge, an exaction. A very long lesson, or any hard and unpleasant task, is usually among students denominated a scrouge.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online March 2021).

scrougev.

/skruːdʒ//skraʊdʒ/
Forms: Also 1700s–1800s skrowdge, 1800s scroodge, scrooge, scroudge, scrowge, skrouge.
Etymology: Apparently an onomatopoeic alteration of scruze v.
colloquial or vulgar. Now chiefly U.S.
1.
a. transitive. To incommode by pressing against (a person); to encroach on (a person's) space in sitting or standing; to crowd. Also, to push or squeeze (a thing). Also figurative.
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the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > pressing, pressure, or squeezing > press or squeeze [verb (transitive)] > crush
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to-bruisec1000
swatchea1300
to-gnidea1300
defoulc1300
to-crushc1300
thring13..
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to-squatc1325
oppressa1382
crush?a1400
thronga1400
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birzec1425
crazec1430
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to-quashc1480
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pletter1598
becrush1609
mortify1609
winder1610
crackle1611
quest1647
scrouge1755
grush1827
jam1832
roll1886
the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being gathered together > gather together [verb (transitive)] > crowd together > crowd upon
thringc1000
pressc1450
throng1534
flock1609
crowd1614
scrouge1755
1755 S. Johnson Dict. Eng. Lang. at Scruze This word..is still preserved, at least in its corruption, to scrouge, in the London jargon.
1756 W. Toldervy Hist. Two Orphans III. 198 I assure you, that I am not used to be skrowdged by any man, not even my husband; therefore, pray sit farther from me.
1811 A. de Beauclerc Ora & Juliet III. 131 I hope, Miss, I don't scrouge you?
1830 Constellation (N.Y.) 11 Sept. 2/5 The room was so completely crowded, that one could not have scrouged the little end of nothing, sharpened, between them.
1841 C. Dickens Old Curiosity Shop ii. xxxix. 10 Kit had hit a man on the head with the handkerchief of apples for ‘scrowdging’ his parent with unnecessary violence.
1868 F. J. Furnivall in Babees Bk. (2002) Forewords p. xxxvi By Harrison's time, a.d. 1577, 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.
1888 E. Eggleston Graysons xxxiii. 348 You know what I am—a good, stiddy-going, hard-working farmer, shore to get my sheer of what's to be had in the world without scrouging anybody else.
1896 Westm. Gaz. 24 July 7/2 A barrister applied at Westminster Police-court to-day for a summons against a solicitor's clerk, alleged to have ‘scrooged’ applicant when..he tried to obtain a seat at the Drummond Castle inquiry the other day.
1944 L. E. Smith Strange Fruit xxix. 362 There'll be lynchings as long as white folks and black folks scrouge each other—everybody scrambling for the same penny.
b. intransitive. Also figurative.
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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > forward movement > move forward or advance [verb (intransitive)] > with persistence, effort, or urgency
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shoulder1581
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to push on (also along)1602
elabour1606
contend1609
to put on?1611
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worry1702
crush1755
squeege1783
battle1797
scrouge1798
sweat1856
flounder1861
pull?1863
tank1939
bulldozer1952
terrier1959
the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being gathered together > gather together [verb (intransitive)] > crowd together
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pressa1350
empressc1400
shock1548
serry1581
pester1610
serr1683
thicken1726
crush1755
scrouge1798
pack1828
to close up1835
to be packed (in) like sardines1911
scrum1913
1798 Aurora (Philadelphia) 13 Dec. 2/1 Upstairs I scrouged to the front.
1821 P. Egan Life in London (1870) viii. 194 Who's that that scroudges?—you shan't shove my wife.
1873 Punch 14 June 247/1 He, like the rest, scrooged and elbowed and leaned forward to see.
1908 K. Grahame Wind in Willows i. 2 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 paws.
1949 H. Hornsby Lonesome Valley xxviii. 377 He was in the top of a tree that scrouged against the sky, and they were cutting the tree down and he was falling with the tree.
c. To draw oneself into a compact shape. Cf. scrooch v. 1.
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the world > space > relative position > posture > act of drawing body into compact form > drawn into compact form [verb (intransitive)]
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forcrempa1250
squinch1843
scrinch1870
scrunch1884
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scrouge1905
curl1910
1905 Dial. Notes 3 64 There I was, all scrooged up in a corner.
a1930 ‘H. Stone’ in W. Murdoch & H. Drake-Brockman Austral. Short Stories (1951) 118 Derned if this ben't an errand... Don't see how I be a-goin' to scrooge through, 'tall, 'tall.
1937 S. V. Benét in Atlantic Monthly Dec. 685/2 So he sort of scrooged back in a corner and waited his chance.
1948 ‘La Meri’ Spanish Dancing x. 144 Since there was seldom a sidewalk, one scrooged against their chalky walls to allow the old victoria carriages to pass.
1979 G. Swarthout Skeletons 230 I scrooged down in my chair, laid my head back, stretched out my legs.
d. transitive. To draw tight; to squeeze or screw up (the eyes, etc.). Cf. scrooch v. 2.
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the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > eye > [verb (transitive)] > by size, shape, etc.
sparkle1601
stain1831
wrinkle1841
bug1865
scrouge1909
scrooch1929
1909 R. A. Wason Happy Hawkins 162 The old man looked at me with his little shiny eyes all scrouged up.
2. U.S. (See quot. 1851.)
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1851 B. H. Hall Coll. College Words Scrouge,..said of an instructor who imposes difficult tasks on his pupils.

Derivatives

ˈscrouging n.
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1843 ‘R. Carlton’ New Purchase II. xl. 59 After hard ‘scrouging’ each way some hundred yards,..we came together and held a council.
1894 H. Caine Manxman iv. xvi. 263 Such pushing and scrooging, you never seen the like.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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