different between scrouge vs scrounge

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.

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• scourge

English

Etymology

1915, alteration of dialectal scrunge ("to search stealthily, rummage, pilfer") (1909), of uncertain origin, perhaps from dialectal scringe ("to pry about"); or perhaps related to scrouge, scrooge ("push, jostle") (1755, also Cockney slang for "a crowd"), probably suggestive of screw, squeeze. Popularized by the military in World War I.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sk?a?nd?/
• Rhymes: -a?nd?

Verb

scrounge (third-person singular simple present scrounges, present participle scrounging, simple past and past participle scrounged)

1. To hunt about, especially for something of nominal value; to scavenge or glean.
   • 1965, Bob Dylan, "Like a Rolling Stone"

     Now you don't seem so proud about having to be scrounging your next meal.

2. To obtain something of moderate or inconsequential value from another.

   As long as he's got someone who'll let him scrounge off them, he'll never settle down and get a full-time job.

Synonyms

• (obtain from another): blag, cadge (UK), leech, sponge, wheedle

Derived terms

• scrounger

Translations

Noun

scrounge (plural scrounges)

1. Someone who scrounges; a scrounger.

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See also

• scringe
• scrooge
• scrouge
• scrunge

Anagrams

• congrues