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, “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 […]