scrooge
Plural: scrooges
Noun
- A miserly, stingy, or ungenerous person.
- a selfish person who is unwilling to give or spend
- A miserly person; a person with an excessive dislike of spending money or other resources.
- A person who is grumpy about the Christmas holidays.
Verb
- To behave in a greedy or miserly way.
- To crush or press; to squeeze (past, into, together, etc.).
Examples
- He was a SCROOGE with his blank tiles, saving them only for epic Words With Friends bingos.
Origin / Etymology
From the character Ebenezer Scrooge in the Charles Dickens' novel A Christmas Carol.
Synonyms
churl, niggard, skinflint, carl, cheapass, cheapie, cheapo, cheapskate, clutchfist, el cheapo, last of the big spenders, magpie, miser, moneygrubber, muckworm, nickel nurser, nig, nigon, nipcheese, nipfarthing, penny pincher, penny-father, pickpenny, piker, pinch-commons, pinch-gut, pincher, pinchfist, pinchpenny, scrimp, scrooge, snudge, squirrel, tight-arse, tightwad
Scrabble Score: 10
scrooge: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordscrooge: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
scrooge: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary