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    Scrooge

    Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++Scrooge, scrooge /skruːdʒ/ noun [countable] informal  GENEROUS#someone who hates spending money 吝啬鬼，守财奴
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    Scrooge• Does one have to be a Scrooge to by cynical about pleasures which are derived from escaping reality rather than embracing it?• The stress and expense of holiday shopping is enough to make anyone feel like a Scrooge.• My scrooge of a wife won't let me buy new golf clubs.• Will he take steps to abolish standing charges or is he the Scrooge of the 1990s?    Origin Scrooge (1800-1900) Ebenezer Scrooge, character in A Christmas Carol (1843) by Charles Dickens
    Scrooge nounChinese
    hates money spending someone who Corpus


    Scrooge
    Scrooge , scrooge /skruːdʒ/ noun [countable] informal
     Date: 1800-1900
     Origin: Ebenezer Scrooge, character in A Christmas Carol (1843) by Charles Dickens
    someone who hates spending money


    ScroogeBrE /skruːdʒ/ 🔊NAmE /skruːdʒ/ 🔊 noun [usually singular] (informal, disapproving) a person who is very unwilling to spend money 吝啬鬼；守财奴

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     ORIGIN From Ebenezer Scrooge, a character in Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol who is extremely mean. 源自狄更斯小说《圣诞颂歌》中一个极其吝啬的人物埃比尼泽 · 斯克鲁奇 (Ebenezer Scrooge)。