scouch
English
editEtymology
editCompare crouch.
Verb
editscouch (third-person singular simple present scouches, present participle scouching, simple past and past participle scouched)
- (intransitive, dialect, Northampton) To stoop.
- You'll hit your head agen the beam, if you don't scouch.
- 1916, Stanton Davis Kirkham, Half-True Stories, page 87:
- Of course, Little Bun did cry some when he couldn't find his Ma and Pa. He scouched down in the grass and the tears trickled down his cocious nose in a little stream that fell on Mr. Grasshopper, who was dozing among the leaves […]