scrooge
nounverbverbattested in dialogue
- //skɹuːd͡ʒ//
A miserly person; a person with an excessive dislike of spending money or other resources.
noun
- 1
A miserly person; a person with an excessive dislike of spending money or other resources.
- 2
A grinch; one who dislikes the Christmas holidays.
Etymology
From the character Ebenezer Scrooge in the Charles Dickens' novel A Christmas Carol.
verb
- 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.
He went back to live in Clayton with dad and tearfully explained to him about Aunt Eliza and her mean, scrooging ways.
[…]corporations scrooging their way out of paying taxes.
verb
- 1
To crush or press; to squeeze (past, into, together, etc.).
So he scraped and scratched and scrabbled and scrooged, then he scrooged again[.]
Etymology
Variant of scrouge.
Forms
- plural
- scrooges
- past tense
- scrooged
- past participle
- scrooged
- present participle
- scrooging
- third person singular
- scrooges
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