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Scrooge|skruːdʒ|
Also scrooge.
The name of the curmudgeonly employer in Dickens' A Christmas Carol (1843), used allusively to designate a miserly, tight-fisted person or killjoy. Hence Scrooge-like a.
1940N. & Q. CLXXIX. 87/2 Old Scrooge, for a killjoy who grudges other people the pleasures that he cannot enjoy himself, and Mr. Micawber..are both frequent types, but more definitely literary. 1953Sun (Baltimore) 14 Dec. 1/6 Britons, who have been looking forward to their gayest Christmas since before the war, suddenly face the threat that a railway strike will paralyze the nation on the eve of the holiday week. A Labor party paper called union leaders who ordered the strike ‘scrooges’. 1960Guardian 18 Nov. 10/6 People..were heard to wonder why this nonsense had to go on... But these were a minority of Scrooges. 1976Monitor (McAllen, Texas) 10 Oct. 1b/7 Jim ‘Catfish’ Hunter, baseball's foremost ‘money’ pitcher, turned in a Scrooge-like performance Saturday. 1980Times 5 Dec. 5/8 Scrooges who wish to prove their repentance this Christmas should send out for woodcock, the most expensive delicacy. |