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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