On Tue, 28 Mar 2017, Systems Glitch via cctalk wrote:
Then it's a regional thing.
"Scrounge up," or to "scrounge around," is certainly commonly used to
mean, "find something in a pile of mess" in the southeastern US. Mostly
equivalent to "scare up."
California: "Scrounge the keyboards, memory, and drives from the machines
being discarded."
"Scrounge up a parallel port for the printer server"
(forage, salvage, scavenge, etc.)
But, the "pilferage" meaning does give some context to the administration
attempts to fire a colleague for scrounging stuff from the dumpsters!
(PDP, 5170s, VT100s, Northstar Horizon, Processor Technology Sol, Lisa, etc.)
