Uncle Scrooge

English

Etymology

From a Disney character, named in reference to Charles Dickens' fictional miser Ebenezer Scrooge.

Noun

Uncle Scrooge (plural Uncle Scrooges)

1. A rich miser.
   • 1967, Committee on Post Office and Civil Service, “Federal Pay Legislation: Hearings, Ninetieth Congress, first session”, in parliamentary debates, U.S. Congress, page 282:

     It is an anomaly of our times that an Uncle Sam spending at a rate of some $128 billion yearly should become an Uncle Scrooge in the treatment of government workers!

Quotations

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Related terms

• scrooge

Translations

rich miser

• Arabic: العم دهب m (Aleumu Dahab)
• Danish: Onkel Joakim c, Joakim von And c
• Finnish: Roope Ankka, Roope-setä
• French: picsou (fr) m
• German: Dagobert Duck (de) m, Onkel Dagobert m
• Hebrew: הדוד קמצוץ m (hadod kamtzutz)
• Italian: paperone (it) m, Paperone (it) m
• Portuguese: Tio Patinhas m
• Russian: Дя́дя Скрудж m (Djádja Skrudž)