DictionaryRoot: Scrooge
English
Scrooge
Dickens’s miserly character
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noun
scrooge
SKROOJ/skruːdʒ/
A person who resents spending money or sharing in others' enjoyment.
Etymology
Scrooge, the miserly employer in Dickens’s A Christmas Carol, became a byword for stinginess. His name came to describe anyone similarly unwilling to spend money.