scrooge

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A miserly person; a person with an excessive dislike of spending money or other resources.
  2. A person who is grumpy about the Christmas holidays.
动词 v.
  1. To behave in a greedy or miserly way.
    — Mr. Chairman, $6 million is 15 times more than what the President earns and 30 times more than what a Cabinet Secretary earns. The Christmas Eve announcement of these bonuses was greeted by one commentator by saying the taxpayers got scrooged.
  2. To crush or press; to squeeze (past, into, together, etc.). UK,US,dialectal
    — So he scraped and scratched and scrabbled and scrooged, then he scrooged again[.]

词形变化

scrooges plural scrooges present,singular,third-person scrooging participle,present scrooged participle,past scrooged past scrooges present,singular,third-person scrooging participle,present scrooged participle,past scrooged past

词汇关系

衍生词
scrooge-like

词源

词源 1
From the character Ebenezer Scrooge in the Charles Dickens' novel A Christmas Carol.
词源 2
Variant of scrouge.
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