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English[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
From the character Ebenezer Scrooge in the Charles Dickens' novel A Christmas Carol.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
scrooge (plural scrooges)
- A miserly person; a person with an excessive dislike of spending money or other resources.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:miser
- A person who is grumpy about the Christmas holidays.
Derived terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
miser — see miser
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Etymology 2[edit]
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Verb[edit]
scrooge (third-person singular simple present scrooges, present participle scrooging, simple past and past participle scrooged)
- (UK, US, dialect) To crush or press; to squeeze (past, into, together, etc.).
- 1908, Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows, London: Wordsworth Classics, published 1993, page 12:
- So he scraped and scratched and scrabbled and scrooged, then he scrooged again[.]
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