Definitions for Scroogeskrudʒ
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
Scroogeskrudʒ(n.)
Ebenezer, a miserly curmudgeon in Dickens'
A Christmas Carol.
Category: Literature
(often l.c.) any miserly person.
Princeton's WordNet
niggard, skinflint, scrooge, churl(noun)
a selfish person who is unwilling to give or spend
Wiktionary
scrooge(Noun)
A miserly, selfish person, comparable to the fictional character Ebenezer Scrooge of Dickensu2019s A Christmas Carol.
Scrooge(ProperNoun)
The fictional character Ebenezer Scrooge of Dickensu2019s A Christmas Carol.
Origin: The use of the word came from the name of the character, Ebenezer Scrooge in Charles Dickens book, A Christmas Carol, and was thus used to describe someone who acted like the character in the book.
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