malagruze
English
Alternative forms
- malagarouse, malagrooze
Etymology
Scots malagruize.
Verb
malagruze (third-person singular simple present malagruzes, present participle malagruzing, simple past and past participle malagruzed)
- (Scotland, now rare) To cause havoc to; to disarrange, put into disarray.
- 1933, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Cloud Howe, Polygon 2006 (A Scots Quair), p. 276:
- the storms came malagarousing the trees down the length and breadth of the shrilling Howe.
- 1994, Alasdair Gray, A History Maker:
- "Why remember those nasty centuries when honest folk were queered, pestered and malagroozed by clanjamfries of greedy gangsters who called themselves governments and stock exchanges?"
- 1933, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Cloud Howe, Polygon 2006 (A Scots Quair), p. 276: