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scrooge

noun

No English definition recorded for this entry.

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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /skɹuːd͡ʒ/

name

  1. The fictional character Ebenezer Scrooge.

noun

Etymology: From the character Ebenezer Scrooge in the Charles Dickens' novel A Christmas Carol.

  1. A miserly person; a person with an excessive dislike of spending money or other resources.
  2. A person who is grumpy about the Christmas holidays.

verb

Etymology: Variant of scrouge.

  1. To crush or press; to squeeze (past, into, together, etc.).

    So he scraped and scratched and scrabbled and scrooged, then he scrooged again[.]