To squeeze one self forward. See CROWD.
1798. Upstairs I scrouged to the front.—The Aurora, Phila., Dec. 13.
1821. T. Dwight quotes scrowge as a Cockneyism.—‘Travels,’ iv. 279.
1830. You’re too monstrous inquisitive,—you scrouge too hard.—Mass. Spy, July 28: from the N.Y. Constellation. (Given as a Southernism.)
