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Scrooge, Ebenezer

Pronunciation: /skruːdʒ/

Definition of Scrooge, Ebenezer
  • a miserly curmudgeon in Charles Dickens’s novel A Christmas Carol (1843).
  • (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

Scrooge, Ebenezer in other Oxford dictionaries

Definition of Scrooge, Ebenezer in the US English dictionary