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Scrooge
also scrooge (skro͞oj)n.
A mean-spirited miserly person; a skinflint.
[After Ebenezer Scrooge, , miserly protagonist of A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens.]
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Scrooge
(skruːdʒ)n
a mean or miserly person
[C19: after a character in Dickens' story A Christmas Carol (1843)]
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Scrooge
(skrudʒ)n.
1. Ebenezer, a miserly curmudgeon in Dickens' A Christmas Carol.
2. (often l.c.) any miserly person.
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Noun | 1. | scrooge - a selfish person who is unwilling to give or spend hoarder - a person who accumulates things and hides them away for future use pinchgut - a niggardly person who starves himself (and others) |
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Scrooge
noun miser, penny-pincher (informal), skinflint, cheapskate (informal), tight-arse (taboo slang), tightwad (U.S. & Canad. slang), tight-ass (U.S. taboo slang), niggard, money-grubber (informal), meanie or meany (informal, chiefly Brit.) What a bunch of Scrooges.
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Scrooge
also scroogenoun
A stingy person:
Informal: penny pincher.
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Scrooge
n → Geizhals m
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