Scrooge

Scrooge
The fictional character Ebenezer Scrooge of Dickens’s .

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  • Scrooge — is the surname of Ebenezer Scrooge, the selfish and miserly protagonist of Charles Dickens 1843 novella A Christmas Carol . Scrooge has since come into general usage as a term for any person who is stingy, antisocial, or lacking in Christmas… …   Wikipedia

  • Scrooge — bezeichnet: Ebenezer Scrooge, grantiger Geizhals aus Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol (Eine Weihnachtsgeschichte) Scrooge McDuck, Originalname von Dagobert Duck Scrooge (1970), britische Literaturverfilmung von Ronald Neame Dies …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • Scrooge — [skru:dʒ] n informal [Date: 1800 1900; Origin: Ebenezer Scrooge, character in A Christmas Carol (1843) by Charles Dickens] someone who hates spending money ▪ You re turning into a real scrooge! …   Dictionary of contemporary English

  • Scrooge — ► NOUN ▪ a person who is mean with money. ORIGIN from Ebenezer Scrooge, a miser in Charles Dickens s story A Christmas Carol (1843) …   English terms dictionary

  • Scrooge — [skro͞oj] n. [after Ebenezer Scrooge, character in Dickens A Christmas Carol] [also s ] a hard, miserly misanthrope …   English World dictionary

  • scrooge — [ skrudʒ ] noun count INFORMAL someone who hates spending money …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

  • scrooge — generic for miser, 1940, from curmudgeonly character in Dickens 1843 story A Christmas Carol. It does not appear to be a genuine English surname …   Etymology dictionary

  • Scrooge — [n] skinflint cheapskate, meanie, misanthrope, misanthropist, miser, moneygrubber, niggard, penny pincher, tightwad; concept 412 …   New thesaurus

  • scrooge — n. a mean or miserly person. Etymology: a character in Dickens s Christmas Carol * * * ↑Scrooge * * * Scrooge [Scrooge Scrooges] [skruːdʒ] [skruːdʒ] noun usually singular ( …   Useful english dictionary

  • scrooge — UK [skruːdʒ] / US [skrudʒ] noun [countable] Word forms scrooge : singular scrooge plural scrooges informal someone who hates spending money • Etymology: From the name of a character like this in Charles Dickens s story A Christmas Carol. Ebenezer …   English dictionary

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