scrouge

I know some o' you has berry brig mout, brigger dan oders; but den de brig mouts sometimes has de small bellies; so dat de brigness ob de mout is not to swallar wid, but to bite off de blubber for de small fry ob sharks, dat can't get into de scrouge to help demselves.

"It's A Christmas Carol, but Scrouge is Donald Trump and Jacob Marley is Robert Mueller?" She'll say, derisively.

Having had experience of anti-social behaviour, eventually leading to the tragic death of a wonderful hardworking young man, Robert son of a former neighbour, Barbara Dunne, opposite my former home, now demolished because of this scrouge on humanity.

It's an alternative spelling of scrouge, which in turn is an alteration of scruze, probably a blend of screw and squeeze.

She must find a way to be patient with a father who has been out of her life for years after being held captive by the Scrouge, an evil paranormal group.

I know some o' you has berry brig mout, brigger dan oders; but den de brig mouts sometimes has de small bellies; so dat de brigness of de mout is not to swaller wid, but to bit off de blubber for de small fry ob sharks, dat can't get into de scrouge to help demselves."

The phylloxera scrouge ran rampant in the 19th century, largely because American and French wine makers were swapping grapes.