SCROOGE

niggard, skinflint, scrooge, churl

(noun) a selfish person who is unwilling to give or spend

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology 1

From the character Ebenezer Scrooge in the Charles Dickens novel, A Christmas Carol.

Noun

scrooge (plural scrooges)

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

Synonyms

• See also miser

Etymology 2

Verb

scrooge (third-person singular simple present scrooges, present participle scrooging, simple past and past participle scrooged)

(UK, US, dialect) To crush or press; to squeeze (past, into, together, etc.).

Proper noun

Scrooge

The fictional character Ebenezer Scrooge.

Synonyms

• Ebenezer Scrooge

Source: Wiktionary

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