To crowd; to squeeze. A word provincial in England and in this country. It is used in the Southern States, and among children at the North.
The ladies were obliged to stand up and he scrouged until chairs could be brought.--Drama in Pokerville.
After hard scrouging each way some hundred yards, we came together and held a council.--Carlton, New Purchase, Vol. II. p. 59.
Them boys that's a scrouging each other, will find plenty of room this way.--Peter Cram, Knick. Mag.