scrooge
IPA: skrˈudʒ
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.
- The fictional character Ebenezer Scrooge.
verb
- (UK, US, dialect) To crush or press; to squeeze (past, into, together, etc.).
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Examples of "scrooge" in Sentences
- The Haunting of Ebenezer Scrooge.
- Scrooge or splurge this Christmas
- Ebenezer Scrooge is old and miserly.
- Or the incomparable Ebenezer Scrooge
- She plays the main role at as Scrooge.
- Come on, no one needs to be the easter scrooge.
- Scrooge is a common English term for a miserly person.
- The story shows the reconciliation between Matilda and Scrooge.
- Scrooge's stinginess made him a bad neighbor and subject of the Crown.
- Scrooge was not much in the habit of cracking jokes, nor did he feel, in his heart, by any means waggish then.
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