Associations to the word «Scrooge»

Wiktionary

SCROOGE, noun. A miserly person; a person with an excessive dislike of spending money or other resources.
SCROOGE, proper noun. The fictional character Ebenezer Scrooge of Dickens’s A Christmas Carol.

Dictionary definition

SCROOGE, noun. A selfish person who is unwilling to give or spend.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope