scrouge (skrouj)

t.; pret. and pp. scrouged, ppr. scrouging. [Also scrooge, scrudge, early mod. E. also scruze, scruse; dial. forms, terminally a ibilated, of *scrug, shrug, with sense partly imported from crowd1: see shrug.] To squeeze; pre ; crowd. [Prov. Eng. and U. S.] You know what I am - a good, stiddy-going, hard-working farmer, shore to get my sheer of what's to be had in the world without scrouging anybody else. E. Eggleston, The Graysons, xxxiii. scrouger (skrou'jėr), n . One who scrouges; figuratively, something big; a whopper; a screamer. [Slang, U. S.]