Scrooge

Definition: Scrooge

Scrooge

Noun

1. A selfish person who is unwilling to give or spend.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "scrooge" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1843. (references)

Synonyms: Scrooge

I also heard that Roland Scrooge is dead (Roland Rat, the Series; writing credit: Colin Bostock-Smith; David Claridge)

Your uncle Scrooge! Smile makes a difference, doesn't it (A Christmas Carol; writing credit: Hugo Butler)

Scrooge (1970)

Mr. Scrooge (1964)

O Velho Scrooge (1963)

Scrooge (1951)

The Gospel According to Scrooge (1983)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• The Friendly Dickens: Being a Good-Natured Guide to the Art and Adventures of the Man Who Invented Scrooge (reference)

• The New Scrooge Investing: The Bargain Hunter's Guide to Thrifty Investments, Super Discounts, Special Privileges, and Other Money-Saving Tips (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Scrooge (reference)

• Scrooge and Beyond Tomorrow (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Passion of Scrooge (Christmas Carol) (reference)

• Pickwick (1993 Chichester Cast) / Scrooge (1992 Birmingham Cast) [2 on 1] [IMPORT] [CAST RECORDING] (reference)

• Scrooge (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Scrooge went to bed again, and thought, and thought, and thought it over and over and over, and could make nothing of it.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Albanian

Kurnac I Lig. (various references)

Bulgarian 

Скъперник (Flint), Скръндза. (various references)

German

Geizhals (cheapskate, curmudgeon, meanie, miser, shylock, skinflint, tightwad). (various references)

Greek 

Σπαγγοραμμένοσ. (various references)

Pig Latin

oogescray.(various references)

Russian 

скряга (cheapskate, clam, close file, curmudgeon, flay-flint, hunks, miser, muckworm, nickel nurser, skinflint, tightwad), Скряга. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

tvrdica (chuff, churl, hoarder, miser, moneybag, moneygrubber, skinflint, tightwad), cicija (miser, moneybags, skinflint). (various references)

Swedish

Girigbuk (miser, screw). (various references)

Turkish

Hasis (costive, hard-fisted, mean, parsimonious, rapacious, spare, stingy, vile), Cimri (chary, cheapskate, cheeseparing, churlish, close, close-fisted, costive, hard-fisted, illiberal, light purse, long purse, mangy, mean, measly, mingy, miser, near, parsimonious, penny pincher, penurious, piker, pinchpenny, screw, scrimp, scrimpy, shabby, shylock, skimp, skimpy, skin, skinflint, skinny, sordid, spare, stingy, tight, tight purse, tight-fisted, tightwad, ungenerous). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "scrooge": scrooges. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Scrooge" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Schraagen, scooge, scorage, scorge, Scorggie, scouge, Scraghey, scroge, Scrogg, scroog, scrooged, scroogy, Scroope, scrupge, Scurlogue, sprooge, srooge. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: cooers, roscoe.

-2 letters: ceros, cooer, cores, corse, goers, goose, gores, gorse, ogres, roose, score, sorgo.

-3 letters: cero, cogs, coos, core, cors, egos, ergo, ergs, eros, goer, goes, goos, gore, ogre, orcs, ores, recs, regs, rocs, roes, rose, sego, sore.

-4 letters: cog, coo, cor, cos, ego, erg, ers, goo, gor, gos, oes, orc, ore, ors.

+1 letter: scrooges.

+2 letters: gyroscope, serologic.

+3 letters: chromogens, cooperages, courageous, creosoting, ergonomics, gyroscopes, rechoosing, sporogenic.

+4 letters: colportages, congenerous, cryosurgeon, foreclosing, gastroscope, geostrophic, necrologies, necrologist, recomposing, reschooling, scattergood, serological, sockdolager, sockdologer.

+5 letters: archeologies, archeologist, cardiologies, choreographs, chronologers, chronologies, cogenerators, concertgoers, congregators, coprocessing, coprophagies, cosmographer, costermonger, courageously, craniologies, croquignoles, cryosurgeons, cryptologies, gastroscopes, gerontocrats, laryngoscope, microgrooves, necrologists, necrophagous, noncoverages, overfocusing, overstocking, proctologies, recognitions, scattergoods, serotonergic, sockdolagers, sockdologers, supercooling, trichologies, uncourageous.