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)

(now dialectal) To squeeze.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Qveene. […], London: Printed [by John Wolfe] for VVilliam Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938, book II, canto XII:
  with her right the riper fruit did reach, / Whose sappy liquor, that with fulnesse sweld, / Into her cup she scruzd […]

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