scruze

verb

scruze

verb

Etymology Perhaps an irregular blend of screw + squeeze.

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Dialectal To squeeze.

with her right the riper fruit did reach, / Whose sappy liquor, that with fulnesse sweld, / Into her cup she scruzd […]1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

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