Talk:scrouge

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Sense 1: example sentence isn't actually using the word. Sense 2: er, Scrooge? Equinox ◑ 23:39, 23 August 2009 (UTC)

The first sense is in several dictionaries, including the OED, often marked as now a US regionalism. I would also guess that it should be marked dated, if not obsolete. I get that cited soon when I have some time.

"Scrouge" also seems to be a semi-common alternative spelling for the Dickens character, and several sources also state that the first sense was where Dickens got the name "Scrooge" from.[1][2] I am not sure if we will be able to find citations for that spelling being used in the way it is defined here, though. Dominic·t 09:14, 24 August 2009 (UTC)

Scrunch is more common in the UK (I don't think we would understand scrouge, though it seems to have been common in the past). There are lots of similar words like scrinch, scringe etc. The example is not of the heading word. Dbfirs 10:04, 24 August 2009 (UTC)

Seems like both sense are for other words, so it looks to me like we'll be deleting both of those anyway, Mglovesfun (talk) 11:21, 24 August 2009 (UTC)

Fails. Mglovesfun (talk) 06:49, 7 January 2010 (UTC)

skrouge

John Camden Hotten's Slang Dictionary (1873) has this spelling, though in practice it seems very rare. Equinox ◑ 00:40, 5 January 2021 (UTC)