SCROOGE Definition & Meaning

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scrooge

[ skrooj ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

verb (used with or without object)

scrooged, scrooging.

scrouge.

Scrooge

[ skrooj ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

��·��·�Ա�·�� [eb-, uh, -, nee, -zer], a miserly curmudgeon in Dickens' Christmas Carol.
(often lowercase) any miserly person.

Scrooge

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noun

a mean or miserly person

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�y��vlog History and Origins

Origin of scrooge¹

1935–40, Scrooge fordef 2

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�y��vlog History and Origins

Origin of scrooge¹

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

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"There's a few out there who think I'm a bit of a scrooge but my friends think it's quite a good idea," she said.

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"I wasn’t very much fun to be around. I was kind of a scrooge," he said.

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“I wasn’t very much fun to be around. I was kind of a scrooge,” he said.

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I know we're starved for sports, and maybe I'm being a scrooge, but I cannot imagine this has any effect beyond making us even more acutely aware of what we can't see.

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It’s not the only such hostile architecture developed by scrooges in recent years.

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