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):

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• Rhymes: -uːd͡ʒ

Noun

scrooge (plural scrooges)

1. A miserly person; a person with an excessive dislike of spending money or other resources.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:miser

2. A person who is grumpy about the Christmas holidays.

Derived terms

• scrooge-like

Translations

miser — see miser

See also

• bah humbug

Etymology 2

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Verb

scrooge (third-person singular simple present scrooges, present participle scrooging, simple past and past participle scrooged)

1. (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[.]