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 The Galaxy Vol. 23, No. 1 by Various
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
“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 Holley, Marietta
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
