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Random House Webster's College Dictionary


  1. Ebenezer, a miserly curmudgeon in Dickens'

    A Christmas Carol.

    Category: Literature

  2. (often l.c.) any miserly person.

Princeton's WordNet

  1. niggard, skinflint, scrooge, churl(noun)

    a selfish person who is unwilling to give or spend


  1. scrooge(Noun)

    A miserly, selfish person, comparable to the fictional character Ebenezer Scrooge of Dickensu2019s A Christmas Carol.

  2. Scrooge(ProperNoun)

    The fictional character Ebenezer Scrooge of Dickensu2019s A Christmas Carol.

  3. Origin: The use of the word came from the name of the character, Ebenezer Scrooge in Charles Dickens book, A Christmas Carol, and was thus used to describe someone who acted like the character in the book.


  1. Scrooge

    Scrooge is a 1970 musical film adaptation of Charles Dickens' classic 1843 story, A Christmas Carol. It was filmed in London, directed by Ronald Neame, and starred Albert Finney in the title role. The film's musical score was composed by Leslie Bricusse, and arranged and conducted by Ian Fraser. With eleven musical arrangements interspersed throughout, the award-winning motion picture is a faithful musical retelling of the original, with one exception noted below. The film received limited praise, but Albert Finney won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Musical/Comedy in 1971. The film received four Academy Award nominations. It is the only live-action version of the story to be nominated for Oscars.


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