A bouncing fellow or girl. A Western vulgarism.
Tom, the engineer, was a roaring, tearing, bar State scrouge--could chaw up any specimen of the human race, any quantity of tobacco, and drink steam without flinching.--Robb, Squatter Life.
Some of the families in them diggins had about twenty in number; and the gals among them warn't any on your pigeon creatures, that a fellow dassent tech for fear of spilin 'em, but real scrougers; any of 'em could lick a bar easy.--Ibid.