Ebenezer Scrooge
/skruːdʒ
/1A miserly curmudgeon in Charles Dickens’s novel A Christmas Carol (1843).
1.1 (as noun a Scrooge) A person who is mean with money: don’t be a Scrooge and drive away without putting some cash in the collecting tins on the way...
- These, of course, are the same Scrooges who did nothing to stop the unemployment benefits of 800,000 workers from expiring during the midst of the holiday season.
- For these instinctive Scrooges, ‘Spending on luxuries appears to cause… something close to physical pain.’
- No, the internet is clever because it has flushed out the retail Scrooges who were determined to rip us off.
Synonyms
miser, penny-pincher, pinchpenny, niggard, cheese-parer, hoarder, saver
informal skinflint, meanie, money-grubber, cheapskate
North American informal tightwad
vulgar slang tight-arse