scrooge
/skɹuːd͡ʒ/
scrooge noun: a miserly person; a person with an excessive dislike of spending money or other resources.
Noun
scrooge (plural scrooges)
- A miserly person; a person with an excessive dislike of spending money or other resources.
- Synonyms:
- carl, cheapass, cheapie, cheapskate, cheapo, churl, clutchfist, el cheapo, last of the big spenders, magpie
- A grinch; one who dislikes the Christmas holidays.
Verb (1)
scrooge (third-person singular simple present scrooges, present participle scrooging, simple past and past participle scrooged)
- To behave in a greedy or miserly way.
- 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.2010 January 22, Committee on Financial Services, COMPENSATION IN THE FINANCIAL INDUSTRY
- He went back to live in Clayton with dad and tearfully explained to him about Aunt Eliza and her mean, scrooging ways.2010, Roy Howarth, Escape is a rare triumph
Verb (2)
scrooge (third-person singular simple present scrooges, present participle scrooging, simple past and past participle scrooged)
- To crush or press; to squeeze (past, into, together, etc.).
- So he scraped and scratched and scrabbled and scrooged, then he scrooged again[.]1908, Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows, London: Wordsworth Classics, published 1993, page 12
Proper noun capitalized: Scrooge
Scrooge
- The fictional character Ebenezer Scrooge.
- Synonyms:
- Ebenezer Scrooge
scrooge meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Malayalam and Kannada
scrooge in Hindi
- scrooge, niggard, curmudgeon
- बख़ील baxīl
scrooge in Tamil
- இறுக்கு, கஞ்சத்தனமாக இரு, நெருங்கு
scrooge in Malayalam
- penny-pincher, miser, pinchpenny
- പിശുക്കൻ, ലുബ്ധൻ, വണ്ഠരൻ, വണ്ഡരൻ, അർക്കീസ്, വലിയ പിശുക്കൻ
scrooge in Kannada
- ಪಂಜೆ, ನೆಲಕಲ
Synonyms of scrooge
- cheapass
- cheapie
- cheapskate
- cheapo
- churl
- el cheapo
- last of the big spenders
- magpie
- miser
- moneygrubber
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Forms of scrooge
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | scrooges |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | scrooges |
| present participle | scrooging |
| past participle | scrooged |
| past | scrooged |
Origin of scrooge
From the character Ebenezer Scrooge in the Charles Dickens' novel A Christmas Carol.
Variant of scrouge.
Words formed from scrooge
Phrases with scrooge
Words that rhyme with scrooge
Questions about scrooge
- What does scrooge mean?
- Scrooge means a miserly person; a person with an excessive dislike of spending money or other resources.
- What is scrooge in Hindi?
- Scrooge in Hindi is बख़ील (baxīl). See Scrooge meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is scrooge?
- Scrooge can be a noun, a verb or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce scrooge?
- Scrooge is pronounced /skɹuːd͡ʒ/.
- What is the plural of scrooge?
- The plural of scrooge is scrooges.
Words near scrooge in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: scrooge (page history and authors); Scrooge (page history and authors); बख़ील (Hindi) (page history and authors); scrooge (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); scrooge (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); scrooge (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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