scrooge
see also: Scrooge
Pronunciation
Scrooge
Pronunciation
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see also: Scrooge
Pronunciation
- IPA: /skɹuːdʒ/
scrooge (plural scrooges)
- A miserly person; a person with an excessive dislike of spending money or other resources.
- See also Thesaurus:miser
- French: avare, grigou, harpagon, grippe-sou
- German: Geizhals, Geizkragen
- Italian: avaro, tirchio, taccagno, spilorcio
- Portuguese: sovina
- Russian: скупе́ц
- Spanish: tacaño, roñoso
scrooge (scrooges, present participle scrooging; past and past participle scrooged)
- (UK, US, dialect) To crush or press; to squeeze (past, into, together, etc.).
Scrooge
Pronunciation
- IPA: /skɹuːdʒ/
- The fictional character Ebenezer Scrooge.
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