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scrooge

  [skrooj]
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–verb (used with object), verb (used without object), scrooged, scroog⋅ing.
scrouge.
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Scrooge

  [skrooj]
–noun
1. Eb⋅e⋅ne⋅zer  [eb-uh-nee-zer] , a miserly curmudgeon in Dickens' Christmas Carol.
2. (often lowercase) any miserly person.
Origin:
1935–40, for def. 2

scrouge

  [skrouj, skrooj]
–verb (used with object), verb (used without object), scrouged, scrouging.
to squeeze; crowd.
Also, scrooge.

Origin:
1820–30; b. obs. scruze (itself b. screw and bruise ) and gouge
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Scrooge also scrooge   (skrōōj)   
n.  A mean-spirited miserly person; a skinflint.

[After Ebenezer Scrooge, miserly protagonist of A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
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Slang Dictionary
scrooge [skrudʒ]

  1. n.
    a stingy person; a penny-pincher. (From the character in Dickens's A Christmas Carol.) : Ask scrooge over there if you can borrow a quarter to call the cops.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Word Origin & History

scrooge 
generic for "miser," 1940, from curmudgeonly character in Dickens' 1843 story "A Christmas Carol." It does not appear to be a genuine Eng. surname.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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