malagruze

English

Alternative forms

• malagarouse, malagrooze

Etymology

From Scots malagruize.

Verb

malagruze (third-person singular simple present malagruzes, present participle malagruzing, simple past and past participle malagruzed)

1. (Scotland, now rare) To cause havoc to; to disarrange, put into disarray.
   • 1933, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Cloud Howe (A Scots Quair), Polygon, published 2006, page 276:

     the storms came malagarousing the trees down the length and breadth of the shrilling Howe.

   • 1994, Alasdair Gray, A History Maker:

     "Why remember those nasty centuries when honest folk were queered, pestered and malagroozed by clanjamfries of greedy gangsters who called themselves governments and stock exchanges?"