scrougeとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Uncertain. Possibly related to shrug.

発音

• IPA^(key): /skɹaʊd͡ʒ/

動詞

scrouge (三人称単数 現在形 scrouges, 現在分詞 scrouging, 過去形および過去分詞形 scrouged)

1. (UK, dialect and US, colloquial, transitive) To crowd; to squeeze.
   • 1884 December 10, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: (Tom Sawyer’s Comrade) […], London: Chatto & Windus, […], OCLC 458431182:

     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.