scrooge

¹

[ skrooj ]

verb (used with or without object)

, scrooged, scroog·ing.

1. scrouge.

Scrooge

²

[ skrooj ]

noun

1. Eb·e·ne·zer [eb-, uh, -, nee, -zer], a miserly curmudgeon in Dickens' Christmas Carol.
2. (often lowercase) any miserly person.

Scrooge

/ skruːdʒ /

noun

1. a mean or miserly person

Word History and Origins

Origin of scrooge¹

1935–40, Scrooge fordef 2

Word History and Origins

Origin of scrooge¹

C19: after a character in Dickens' story A Christmas Carol (1843)

Example Sentences

Even Ebenezer Scrooge might have been impressed with how TV networks are profiting from holiday movies.

From Los Angeles Times

When Taylor Swift is making $2bn in ticket sales, and Coldplay can sell out 10 nights at Wembley Stadium, it’s easy to conjure an image of touring musicians swimming in sweet piles of cash, like guitar-wielding Scrooge McDucks.

From BBC

And she is framing it all as an appeal to the innate, cross-ideological American desire to have an absolutely disgusting, Scrooge McDuck level of wealth tied up in one’s property value.

From Slate

He returned to Britain, and acted in a number of films in the period after World War Two, including The Captive Heart and Scrooge.

From BBC

“Disney is a massive company. They know the law. But just like their character Uncle Scrooge, they choose to be cheap.”

From Los Angeles Times