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Scrooge

//skɹuːd͡ʒ// name, noun, verb

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    The fictional character Ebenezer Scrooge.
Noun
  1. 1
    A miserly person; a person with an excessive dislike of spending money or other resources.
  2. 2
    a selfish person who is unwilling to give or spend wordnet
  3. 3
    A person who is grumpy about the Christmas holidays.
Verb
  1. 1
    To behave in a greedy or miserly way.

    "Mr. Chairman, $6 million is 15 times more than what the President earns and 30 times more than what a Cabinet Secretary earns. The Christmas Eve announcement of these bonuses was greeted by one commentator by saying the taxpayers got scrooged."

  2. 2
    To crush or press; to squeeze (past, into, together, etc.). UK, US, dialectal

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

Etymology

Etymology 1

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

Etymology 2

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

Etymology 3

Variant of scrouge.

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