scrunch v EDD ~ v 2, 3.
1 To produce a crunching, grating sound.
1941 WITHINGTON 141-2 Among [the patients] was a girl from the cook-rooms holding up one badly swollen arm with the hand of the other. 'Rheumatism,' she said, and as I examined it she observed, 'He scrunches.' And indeed he did 'scrunch,' for the arm was broken. P 40-78 ~ To grind with the teeth; to grind teeth together when angry or while sleeping.
2 To crush, crumble; to collapse, to be crushed.
T 50/1--64 Little soft-wood vessel, see—Newfoundland wood. Well, if 'twas in [these] days, they'd be lost 'cause the big ones scrunches up now with the ice. T 158-65 I couldn't get no baccy [so] I get this hard stuff, like comed off trees, an' cut her up an' scrunch up, put in pipe, smoke un.
