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scrooge en · NOUN · etymology 1
Pronunciation
- /skɹuːd͡ʒ/
- (Southern-England) audio
Etymology
From the character Ebenezer Scrooge in the Charles Dickens' novel A Christmas Carol.
Meanings
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A miserly person; a person with an excessive dislike of spending money or other resources.
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A grinch; one who dislikes the Christmas holidays.
Forms
Deriveds
scrooge-like
Synonyms
scrimp · pickpenny · magpie · squirrel · nickel nurser · nigon · carl · muckworm · tight-arse · pinchfist · cheapie · piker · cheapskate · nipcheese · nig · el cheapo · niggard · clutchfist · miser · cheapo · pinch-commons · churl · pinch-gut · cheapass · skinflint · pincher · last of the big spenders · penny pincher · nipfarthing · pinchpenny · scrooge · moneygrubber · snudge · penny-father · tightwad
scrooge en · VERB · etymology 1
Pronunciation
- /skɹuːd͡ʒ/
- (Southern-England) audio
Etymology
From the character Ebenezer Scrooge in the Charles Dickens' novel A Christmas Carol.
Meanings
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To behave in a greedy or miserly way.
[…]corporations scrooging their way out of paying taxes.
2012, Sarra Manning, Adorkable:Mr. Chairman, $6 million is 15 times more than what the President earns and 30 times more than what a Cabinet Secretary earns. The Christmas Eve announcement of these bonuses was greeted by one commentator by saying the taxpayers got scrooged.
2010 January 22, Committee on Financial Services, COMPENSATION IN THE FINANCIAL INDUSTRY:He went back to live in Clayton with dad and tearfully explained to him about Aunt Eliza and her mean, scrooging ways.
2010, Roy Howarth, Escape is a rare triumph:
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Relateds
bah humbug
scrooge en · VERB · etymology 2
Etymology
Variant of scrouge.
Meanings
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(UK, US, dialectal) To crush or press; to squeeze (past, into, together, etc.).
So he scraped and scratched and scrabbled and scrooged, then he scrooged again[.]
1908, Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows, London: Wordsworth Classics, published 1993, page 12:
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