1A miserly curmudgeon in Charles Dickens's novel A Christmas Carol (1843).

1. 1.1as noun a Scrooge A person who is mean with money.
   don't be a Scrooge and drive away without putting some cash in the collecting tins on the way

   Example sentencesExamples

   • What if those who believe in the importance of personal responsibility could no longer be summarily dismissed as cold, calculating Scrooges?
   • He's a real Scrooge type of boss - keeps all the money for himself.
   • These, of course, are the same Scrooges who did nothing to stop the unemployment benefits of 800,000 workers from expiring during the midst of the holiday season.
   • This owner was, however, somewhat of a Scrooge in terms of pay, bonuses, flexible working policies, etc.
   • Yes, call me a Stingy Scrooge because in that situation, I was being a Miser to the extreme.
   • No, the internet is clever because it has flushed out the retail Scrooges who were determined to rip us off.
   • For these instinctive Scrooges, ‘Spending on luxuries appears to cause… something close to physical pain.’
   • Dotcommers, like a pack of postmodern Scrooges, had forgotten the true meaning of the New Economy.

   Synonyms

   miser, penny-pincher, pinchpenny, niggard, cheese-parer, hoarder, saver

   informal skinflint, meanie, money-grubber, cheapskate

   North American informal tightwad

   vulgar slang tight-arse