Scrooge McDuck

名词 n. 动词 v.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Someone with immense wealth. slang
    — I, RONNIE DUCKWORTH, do hereby will nothing because I come from a long line of "Scrooge McDucks".
  2. A greedy person. slang
    — With dollar signs in our eyes, we stared at the pennies like a pack of Scrooge McDucks.
动词 v.
  1. To dive into money; to swim around in money. slang
    — If I had a dollar for every time some probably well-meaning but clueless dude took my instrument from my hands to hook it up or went to plug in my amp or pedals for me I'd be Scrooge McDucking it all day long[…]
  2. To revel in ones wealth and success. figuratively,slang
    — From what I can tell, the baby-faced cabal of DigiTour Winter artists, […] are all about ready to Scrooge McDuck through some new school coin, thanks to their adorably populist YouTube accounts and Snapchat followings.

词形变化

Scrooge McDucks present,singular,third-person Scrooge McDucking participle,present Scrooge McDucked participle,past Scrooge McDucked past Scrooge McDucks plural

词源

词源 1
Verb sense evoking a recurring gag in which the wealthy eponymous cartoon duck dives into, and swims around in, a giant pile of gold coins.
The etymology of the name, from Ebenezer Scrooge (alluding to his wealth) + Mc- (reflecting his Scottish ancestry) + duck (denoting his species).
词源 2
Verb sense evoking a recurring gag in which the wealthy eponymous cartoon duck dives into, and swims around in, a giant pile of gold coins.
The etymology of the name, from Ebenezer Scrooge (alluding to his wealth) + Mc- (reflecting his Scottish ancestry) + duck (denoting his species).
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