scrouging

All the station was scrouging round us by this time — pawters & clarx and refreshmint people and all.

The diary of C. Jeames De La Pluche, Esq., with his letters 2006

All the station was scrouging round us by this time — pawters & clarx and refreshmint people and all.

Burlesques 2006

Heap of poor white people scrouging in there too all together.

Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Arkansas Narratives, Part 4 Work Projects Administration

I seed a whole drove of colored folks pushin 'and scrouging in there so feared they wouldn't get the best seat an' miss somepin.

Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Arkansas Narratives, Part 4 Work Projects Administration

There was such a scrouging that I could not get near them.

The Dodge Club or, Italy in MDCCCLIX James De Mille

I paid my five dollars, and by pushing and scrouging I finally got my quart.

"Co. Aytch" Maury Grays, First Tennessee Regiment or, A Side Show of the Big Show Sam R. Watkins

Justabout (Certainly, extremely): "I justabout did enjoy myself up at the Cristial Palace on the Forresters 'day, but there was a terr'ble gurt crowd; I should think there must have been two or three hundred people a-scrouging about."

Highways & Byways in Sussex E.V. Lucas

It must have been a ticklish task to have a half hundred little geese under one's single garment scrouging and crowding for warmth.

From Slavery to Wealth The Life of Scott Bond The Rewards of Honesty, Industry, Economy and Perseverance. Daniel Arthur 1917

The pig followed it, scrouging under the fence, and squealing intermittently.

The Corner House Girls at School Grace Brooks Hill 1917

In front of the clothing shop three doors south of him no special congestion of traffic revealed itself; no scrouging knot of citizens was to be seen, and by that Trencher reasoned that the negro had been taken elsewhere by his captors -- very probably to where the body would still be lying, hunched up in the shadow before the Jollity's side doors.

From Place to Place 1910