scrooge
See also: Scrooge
English
Etymology 1
From the character Ebenezer Scrooge in the Charles Dickens' novel A Christmas Carol.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /skɹuːd͡ʒ/
Audio (Southern England) (file) - Rhymes: -uːd͡ʒ
Noun
scrooge (plural scrooges)
- A miserly person; a person with an excessive dislike of spending money or other resources.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:miser
- A person who is grumpy about the Christmas holidays.
Derived terms
Translations
miser — see miser
See also
Etymology 2
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Verb
scrooge (third-person singular simple present scrooges, present participle scrooging, simple past and past participle scrooged)
- (UK, US, dialect) To crush or press; to squeeze (past, into, together, etc.).
- 1908, Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows, London: Wordsworth Classics, published 1993, page 12:
- So he scraped and scratched and scrabbled and scrooged, then he scrooged again[.]
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