scronch
(skrɒntʃ)
Also schronch, scrunch.
[Orig. uncertain; perh. var. scrunch n.]
Among American Blacks, a kind of slow dance (see quot. 1970).
| 1926 C. Van Vechten Nigger Heaven 286 Scronch, a dance. 1935 Z. N. Hurston Mules & Men (1970) i. x. 224 Jim Presley's melody crying like repentance as four or five couples took the floor. Doing the slow drag, doing the schronch. 1970 C. Major Dict. Afro-Amer. Slang 101 Scrunch, (1900's–30's) a slow, dragged-out dance. 1974 Black World Aug. 22/1 In Polk County,..place where the blues are born, place where they dance the scronch and the belly-rub. |