scruze

English

Etymology

Perhaps an irregular blend of screw +‎ squeeze.

Verb

scruze (third-person singular simple present scruzes, present participle scruzing, simple past and past participle scruzed)

1. (now dialectal) To squeeze.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     with her right the riper fruit did reach, / Whose sappy liquor, that with fulnesse sweld, / Into her cup she scruzd […]

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• Cruzes