scroogenoun [ C ]
uk/skruːdʒ/us/skruːdʒ/disapproving someone who spends as little money as possible and is not generous:
He's a mean old scrooge!
Scrooge is a character who hates spending money but learns how to be generous, in the book "A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Mean with money
- cheap
- cheapskate
- cheeseparing
- chintzy
- frugal
- mean
- meanly
- meanness
- measly
- mingy
- miser
- miserly
- money-grubbing
- parsimonious
- penny-pinching
- skinflint
- stingy
- tight
- tight-fisted
- tightwad
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