Scrouge vs Scourge - What's the difference?
scrouge | scourge |
(UK, dialect, and, US, colloquial) To crowd; to squeeze.
* Walter Blair
* 1983 , Judson R. Landis, Sociology: concepts and characteristics
* 2001 , Aileen Kilgore Henderson, Stateside Soldier: Life in the Women's Army Corps, 1944-1945 (page 12)
(uncountable) A source of persistent trouble such as pestilence that causes pain and suffering or widespread destruction.
A means to inflict such pain or destruction.
* Shakespeare
* {{quote-magazine, title=Towards the end of poverty
, date=2013-06-01, volume=407, issue=8838, page=11, magazine=(The Economist)
A whip, often of leather.
* Chapman
To strike with a scourge , to flog.
As verbs the difference between scrouge and scourge
is that scrouge is (uk|dialect|and|us|colloquial) to crowd; to squeeze while scourge is to strike with a scourge , to flog.As a noun scourge is
(uncountable) a source of persistent trouble such as pestilence that causes pain and suffering or widespread destruction.scrouge
English
Verb
(scroug)- Well, pretty soon the whole town was there, squirming and scrouging and pushing and shoving to get at the window and have a look
- I look for veiled eyes or bodies scrouged into a seat in an alien world.
- We stayed up till eleven, sitting on the stairs, on the floor, and scrouged into the day room, surrounded by stacks of GI clothes.
scourge
English
Noun
- What scourge for perjury / Can this dark monarchy afford false Clarence?
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- Up to coach then goes / The observed maid, takes both the scourge and reins.