单词	Scrooge
释义	ScroogeScrooge, scrooge /skruːdʒ/ noun [countable] informal Word Origin WORD ORIGINScrooge Origin: 1800-1900 Ebenezer Scrooge, character in A Christmas Carol (1843) by Charles Dickens Examples EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES My scrooge of a wife won't let me buy new golf clubs. EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS Does one have to be a Scrooge to by cynical about pleasures which are derived from escaping reality rather than embracing it? The stress and expense of holiday shopping is enough to make anyone feel like a Scrooge. Will he take steps to abolish standing charges or is he the Scrooge of the 1990s? someone who hates spending money
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