Usually means: Miserly person, despises holiday generosity.
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General (21 matching dictionaries)
  1. scrooge: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. scrooge: Merriam-Webster
  3. Scrooge: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. Scrooge: Collins English Dictionary
  5. scrooge: Vocabulary.com
  6. Scrooge, scrooge: Wordnik
  7. scrooge: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Scrooge, scrooge: Wiktionary
  9. Scrooge: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. Scrooge: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. scrooge: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. scrooge: Dictionary.com
  13. scrooge: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Scrooge (disambiguation), Scrooge (musical), Scrooge: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. scrooge: Rhymezone
  16. Scrooge: E Cobham Brewer, The Reader's Handbook
  17. scrooge: FreeDictionary.org
  18. scrooge: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. Scrooge: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Scrooge: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. SCROOGE: Acronym Finder
  2. scrooge: A Word A Day
  3. Scrooge: Wordcraft Dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Scrooge: Urban Dictionary

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American English Definition British English Definition
▸ noun:  A miserly person; a person with an excessive dislike of spending money or other resources.
▸ noun:  A person who is grumpy about the Christmas holidays.
▸ verb:  (UK, US, dialect) To crush or press; to squeeze (past, into, together, etc.).
▸ noun:  The fictional character Ebenezer Scrooge.

Similar:
skinflint, niggard, churl, grabber, Ebenezer Scrooge, miser, Uncle Scrooge, scrape-good, scrimp, cheapie, more...

Opposite:
generous, philanthropic, charitable, benevolent

Types:
miser, penny-pincher, cheapskate, tightwad, more...

Phrases:
Ebenezer Scrooge, Uncle Scrooge, scrooge ebenezer, Scrooge McDuck, The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck, more...

Adjectives:
old, young, dogged, reformed, miserly, day, real, miss, poor, modern, veritable

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Similar:
skinflint, niggard, churl, grabber, Ebenezer Scrooge, miser, Uncle Scrooge, scrape-good, scrimp, cheapie, more...

Opposite:
generous, philanthropic, charitable, benevolent

Types:
miser, penny-pincher, cheapskate, tightwad, more...

Phrases:
Ebenezer Scrooge, Uncle Scrooge, scrooge ebenezer, Scrooge McDuck, The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck, Music Inspired by the Life and Times of Scrooge, what scrooge learned to do, more...

Adjectives:
old, young, dogged, reformed, miserly, day, real, miss, poor, modern, veritable

Colors:
    dark green,     olive,     gray,     charcoal,     black, more...



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