scrooge

/skɹuːd͡ʒ/

noun 2verb 2name 1

Collocations

ADJ.

busy, little, old, ominous, own, painted, parsimonious

VERB + SCROOGE

addressing, come, influence, name, said, warehouse

SCROOGE + NOUN

awoke, earnestness, humbug, marley, mr, ogre, warmth

PREP.

in, on, out, than, towards, with

Definitions

noun

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

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.

verb

To crush or press; to squeeze (past, into, together, etc.).

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

Thesaurus

Synonyms

noun — a selfish person who is unwilling to give or spend

niggard
skinflint
churl

Antonyms

Idioms & Phrases

Example Bank

Wiktionary

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

Wiktionary

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

Wiktionary

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

Wiktionary

Scrooge and Marley were partners for I don't know how many years.

Tatoeba · #3711949

Scrooge never painted out Old Marley's name. There it stood, years afterwards, above the warehouse door: Scrooge and Marley.

Tatoeba · #3712673

Usage Notes

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