different between scrouge vs scrooch

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

English

Alternative forms

• scrootch
• scrouge (UK)

Verb

scrooch (third-person singular simple present scrooches, present participle scrooching, simple past and past participle scrooched)

1. (intransitive) To crouch, or hunker down.

Synonyms

• scrunch