subs. (American).—Anything exceptional in size, quality, capacity. &c.
1847. ROBB, Streaks of Squatter Life, 106. The gals among ’em warn’t any on your pigeon creaturs … but real SCROUGERS—any on ’em over fourteen could lick a bar easy.
c. 1852. HALIBURTON (‘Sam Slick’), ed. Traits of American Humour, I. 265. A drum, and a regular SCROUGER, at that.
