scrooch down

Example Sentences

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“Oh,” sez he, “I mean to do it sly; I could scrooch down and pretend to be fixin’ my shues.”

From Around the World with Josiah Allen's Wife by Holley, Marietta

When they put out a hand to feel her condition she would "scrooch" down her back, or bend this way or that, as if the hand were a branding-iron.

From Birds and Poets : with Other Papers by Burroughs, John

Before I could see what would happen next, Mister Shepherd pulled me back from the aisle and had me scrooch down under a bench.

From Great Jehoshaphat and Gully Dirt! by Smith, Jewell Ellen

To duck, you scrooch down, and shrink in, to get as much as possible of your body under the eaves of your steel helmet.

From The Martial Adventures of Henry and Me by White, William Allen

Now, Bud," Mr. Cullum said, when the bag was set on the edge of the gully, with its mouth towards the prairie, "you jest scrooch down behind this here sack an' hold the candle.

From Southern Lights and Shadows by Howells, William Dean