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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
scrouge .
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Examples
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The tent in which I lay was much crowded and being "scrouged" I could not sleep.
Diary of Samuel A. Agnew : September 27, 1863-June 30, 1864, 1957
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She ran into her cabin and scrouged behind the headboard of a bed.
The Best Short Stories of 1921 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story Various 1915
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Male passengers, swinging aboard behind her, have already scrouged on by her and taken the vacant places.
'Oh, Well, You Know How Women Are!' Mary Roberts Rinehart 1910
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The paired-off cave-dwellers merely scowled on us as we scrouged past them to a vacant bench in a far corner.
Europe Revised 1910
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She ran into her cabin and scrouged behind the headboard of a bed.
Sundry Accounts 1910
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I don't know of but a few who are making more than a good fair living, and there's ten to one who are powerfully scrouged to do that.
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To cut a long story short, nobody 'ad any more breakfast, and no time to do anything until them two men was scrouged up in a corner an'
Light Freights 1903
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Me an 'grandpa scrouged down behind the chimney so as not to git struck an' watched the trap the bluecoats was a-layin 'fer you - uns.
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Henrietta scrouged down at my feet, and I fearingly, but accommodatingly, accepted the other twin.
The Tinder-Box Maria Thompson Daviess 1898
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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'.
Sonny, a Christmas Guest Ruth McEnery Stuart 1886
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