Scrooge

Quick meaning: Scrooge is a noun meaning A miserly person; a person with an excessive dislike of spending money or other resources.

Meaning

A miserly person; a person with an excessive dislike of spending money or other resources.

More Meanings

1. A person who is grumpy about the Christmas holidays.
2. To behave in a greedy or miserly way.
3. (UK, US, dialect) To crush or press; to squeeze (past, into, together, etc.).

Example Sentences

[…]corporations scrooging their way out of paying taxes.

So he scraped and scratched and scrabbled and scrooged, then he scrooged again[.]

He went back to live in Clayton with dad and tearfully explained to him about Aunt Eliza and her mean, scrooging ways.

Mr. Chairman, $6 million is 15 times more than what the President earns and 30 times more than what a Cabinet Secretary earns. The Christmas Eve announcement of these bonuses was greeted by one commentator by saying the taxpayers got scrooged.

Word Forms

• scrooges
• scrooging
• scrooged

Synonyms for scrooge

Depending on context, synonyms include carl, cheapass, cheapie, cheapskate, cheapo, churl.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include skinflint, grabber, churl, miser, scrape-good, niggard.

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