different between scrooge vs scrouge

English

Etymology 1

From the character Ebenezer Scrooge in the Charles Dickens novel, A Christmas Carol.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sk?u?d?/

Noun

scrooge (plural scrooges)

1. A miserly person; a person with an excessive dislike of spending money or other resources.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:miser

Translations

Etymology 2

Verb

scrooge (third-person singular simple present scrooges, present participle scrooging, simple past and past participle scrooged)

1. (Britain, US, dialect) To crush or press; to squeeze (past, into, together, etc.).

English

Alternative forms

• scrooge
• scrowdge
• scrudge

Etymology

Uncertain. Possibly related to shrug.

Verb

scrouge (third-person singular simple present scrouges, present participle scrouging, simple past and past participle scrouged)

1. (Britain, dialect and US, colloquial, transitive) To crowd; to squeeze.

   • Well, pretty soon the whole town was there, squirming and scrouging and pushing and shoving to get at the window and have a look […]

   • 1983, Judson R. Landis, Sociology: concepts and characteristics

     I look for veiled eyes or bodies scrouged into a seat in an alien world.

   • 2001, Aileen Kilgore Henderson, Stateside Soldier: Life in the Women's Army Corps, 1944-1945 (page 12)

     We stayed up till eleven, sitting on the stairs, on the floor, and scrouged into the day room, surrounded by stacks of GI clothes.

Translations

Anagrams

• scourge