scrooch down
Example Sentences
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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
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 Jewell Ellen Smith
“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
“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
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 The Galaxy Vol. 23, No. 1 by Various
