scrooch

scrooch |skro͞oCH skrutʃ | ▶verb [ no obj. ] informal crouch; bend: he scrooched forward on his chair. ORIGIN mid 19th cent. (originally US ): dialect variant of US scrouge ‘squeeze, crowd, ’ perhaps reinforced by the verb crouch .

scrooch

scrooch |skruːtʃ | ▶verb [ no obj. ] informal, chiefly US crouch; bend. ORIGIN mid 19th cent.: dialect variant of US scrouge ‘squeeze, crowd ’, perhaps reinforced by the verb crouch .