a-scroodgin

Updated: July 28, 2026

Then education began; the scholars were all repeating their lessons, talking to one another aloud and quarrelling. "Please, sir, Josh Blake's a-pinching me." "Please, sir, Hugh Boyle is a-scroodgin." "Please, sir, Nancy Toomey is making faces at me." It was a pandemonium of little devils, to be changed, if possible, into little angels.

George Dunderdale - The Book of the Bush: Containing Many Truthful Sketches Of The Early Colonial: Life Of Squatters, Whalers, Convicts, Diggers, And Others: Who Left Their Native Land And Never Returned