scrooge

plural scrooges

1. A miserly person; a person with an excessive dislike of spending money or other resources.

   Synonyms: carl, cheapass, cheapie, cheapskate, cheapo, churl, clutchfist, el cheapo

2. A grinch; one who dislikes the Christmas holidays.

present singular third person scrooges · participle present scrooging · participle past scrooged · past scrooged

1. To behave in a greedy or miserly way.

   […]corporations scrooging their way out of paying taxes.

   2012, Sarra Manning, Adorkable

   2 more examples

   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.

   2010 January 22, Committee on Financial Services, COMPENSATION IN THE FINANCIAL INDUSTRY

   He went back to live in Clayton with dad and tearfully explained to him about Aunt Eliza and her mean, scrooging ways.

   2010, Roy Howarth, Escape is a rare triumph

present singular third person scrooges · participle present scrooging · participle past scrooged · past scrooged

1. UKUSdialectalTo crush or press; to squeeze (past, into, together, etc.).

   So he scraped and scratched and scrabbled and scrooged, then he scrooged again[.]

   1908, Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows, London: Wordsworth Classics, published 1993, page 12

1. The fictional character Ebenezer Scrooge.

   Synonyms: Ebenezer Scrooge