scrooge

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

• IPA^(key): /skɹuːd͡ʒ/

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• Rhymes: -uːd͡ʒ

scrooge (plural scrooges)

1. A miserly person; a person with an excessive dislike of spending money or other resources.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:miser

2. A person who is grumpy about the Christmas holidays.

• scrooge-like

scrooge (third-person singular simple present scrooges, present participle scrooging, simple past and past participle scrooged)

1. To behave in a greedy or miserly way.
   • 2010 January 22, Committee on Financial Services, COMPENSATION IN THE FINANCIAL INDUSTRY‎^[1]:

     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.

   • 2010, Roy Howarth, Escape is a rare triumph‎^[2]:

     He went back to live in Clayton with dad and tearfully explained to him about Aunt Eliza and her mean, scrooging ways.

   • 2012, Sarra Manning, Adorkable‎^[3]:

     […] corporations scrooging their way out of paying taxes.

• bah humbug

Variant of scrouge.

scrooge (third-person singular simple present scrooges, present participle scrooging, simple past and past participle scrooged)

1. (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[.]

Cognate with English scrooge.

• IPA^(key): /skruːd͡ʒ/

scrooge

1. to squeeze

• Diarmaid Ó Muirithe (1990) “A Modern Glossary of the Dialect of Forth and Bargy”, in lrish University Review‎^[4], volume 20, number 1, Edinburgh University Press, page 160