scrooge
noun
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Pronunciation: /skɹuːd͡ʒ/
name
- The fictional character Ebenezer Scrooge.
noun
Etymology: From the character Ebenezer Scrooge in the Charles Dickens' novel A Christmas Carol.
- A miserly person; a person with an excessive dislike of spending money or other resources.
- A person who is grumpy about the Christmas holidays.
verb
Etymology: Variant of scrouge.
- To crush or press; to squeeze (past, into, together, etc.).
“So he scraped and scratched and scrabbled and scrooged, then he scrooged again[.]”