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
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
“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
“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
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
