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scrooge
1[skrooj]
Scrooge
2[skrooj]
noun
Ebenezer a miserly curmudgeon in Dickens' Christmas Carol.
(often lowercase)any miserly person.
Scrooge
/ ː /
noun
a mean or miserly person
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of scrooge1
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of scrooge1
Example Sentences
"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.
"I wasn’t very much fun to be around. I was kind of a scrooge," he said.
“I wasn’t very much fun to be around. I was kind of a scrooge,” he said.
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.
It’s not the only such hostile architecture developed by scrooges in recent years.
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