Lexicographical Neighbors of Scrouger
| scrouge scrouged scrouger (current term) scrougers scrouges scrouging scrounge scrounge up scrounged scrounger | scroungers scrounges scroungier scroungiest scrounging scroungy scrow |
Literary usage of Scrouger
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Dictionary of Americanisms: A Glossary of Words and Phrases Usually Regarded by John Russell Bartlett (1877)
"scrouger. A bouncing fellow or girl. A Western vulgarism. ... Congo is a scrouger;
he's up a gum, and no bug-eater, I tell you; he carries > broad row, ..."
2. A History of Travel in America: Being an Outline of the Development in Modes by Seymour Dunbar (1915)
"But he found me a real scrouger. I brake three of his ribs, and he knocked out
five of my teeth and one eye. He was the severest colt that ever I tried to ..."
3. Fishing in American Waters by Genio C. Scott (1869)
"He breaks water; I seen him; he's a scrouger ! S. There, doctor, you perceive he
has hove to for a lunar, and to discover how to tack; there! he is now ..."
4. Fishing in American Waters by Genio C. Scott (1869)
"He breaks water; I seen him; he's a scrouger! S. There, doctor, you perceive he
has hove to for a lunar, and to discover how to tack; there! he is now ..."
5. Fishing in American Waters by Genio C. Scott (1875)
"... keep cool, and reel in your slack line; he is only studying a new dodge or
making a new tack. Mosier. He breaks water; I seen him; he's a scrouger! .S'. ..."
6. Fishing in American Waters by Genio C. Scott (1869)
"He breaks water ; I seen him ; he's a scrouger ! S. There, doctor, you perceive
he has hove to for a lunar, and to discover how to tack; there! he is now ..."
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