Scrooges

Scrooge also scrooge (skr

A mean-spirited miserly person; a skinflint.

[After Ebenezer Scrooge, miserly protagonist of A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens.]

Scrooge [skruːdʒ]

a mean or miserly person

[after a character in Dickens' story A Christmas Carol (1843)]

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Noun

scrooge - a selfish person who is unwilling to give or spend

niggard, skinflint, churl

hoarder - a person who accumulates things and hides them away for future use

pinchgut - a niggardly person who starves himself (and others)

Scrooge

noun miser, penny-pincher (informal), skinflint, cheapskate (informal), tight-arse (taboo slang), tightwad (U.S. & Canad. slang), tight-ass (U.S. taboo slang), niggard, money-grubber (informal), meanie or meany (informal, chiefly Brit.) What a bunch of Scrooges.

Translations

Scrooge [skruːdʒ] N → el avariento típico(personaje del "Christmas Carol" de Dickens)

Scrooge [ˈskruːdʒ] n → rat m

Scrooge

n → Geizhals m

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And two years later the boardroom Scrooges "argued that a suggestion to install a large illuminated scoreboard was not practicable" and "agreed to ban use of radio sets on the ground".

TOFFEES SUCK AT SPLASHING CASH; FOOTBALL'S ANSWER TO THE 3AM GIRLS by The Mirror (London, England)

Angry employee Rob Thomas said: "They are Scrooges with a capital S.

'Scrooge' bosses at HFC bank; Staff 'refused time off' on Christmas ... by Birmingham Mail (England)

SPENDING on Christmas presents this year will drop by nearly 20 per cent as the credit crunch turns us all into Scrooges.

Credit crunch hits prezzies by Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland)

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