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scrooged

scrooged is the simple past and past participle of scrooge.

Meaning of scrooge

Verb (1)

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

  1. 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

Verb (2)

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

  1. (UK, US, dialectal) 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

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Questions about scrooged

What is scrooged the simple past and past participle of?
Scrooged is the simple past and past participle of scrooge.

Words near scrooged in the dictionary

  1. Scrooge McDucked
  2. Scrooge McDucking
  3. Scrooge McDucks
  4. scrooge-like
  5. Scroogean
  6. scrooged
  7. Scroogelike
  8. scrooges
  9. Scroogesque
  10. Scroogey
  11. Scroogian

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