scrooch down
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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 Marietta Holley
“I don’t believe it,” sez he; “nobody loves to scrooch down flat with their legs under ’em numb as sticks.”
From Around the World with Josiah Allen's Wife by Marietta Holley
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 John Burroughs
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 William Allen White
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 William Dean Howells
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