scrooge

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   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.

2. 2
   verb

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

   So he scraped and scratched and scrabbled and scrooged, then he scrooged again[.]

3. 3
   noun

   a selfish person who is unwilling to give or spend

4. 4
   noun

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

5. 5
   noun

   A person who is grumpy about the Christmas holidays.

6. 6
   name

   The fictional character Ebenezer Scrooge.

Etymology

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