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Definition von scrooge im Englisch Türkisch wörterbuch
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Definition von scrooge im Englisch Englisch wörterbuch
- The fictional character Ebenezer Scrooge of Dickens’s A Christmas Carol
- A miserly, selfish person, comparable to the fictional character Ebenezer Scrooge of Dickens’s A Christmas Carol
- disapproval If you call someone a Scrooge, you disapprove of them because they are very mean and hate spending money. What a bunch of Scrooges. someone who hates spending money (Ebenezer Scrooge, character in A Christmas Carol (1843) by Charles Dickens)
- Ebenezer Scrooge, a character in Dickens's A Christmas Carol
- A miserly, selfish person
- {f} scrimp, be frugal; behave miserly
- a selfish person who is unwilling to give or spend
- {i} miser, overly frugal person, cheapskate, very stingy person
- Ebenezer Scrooge
- A fictional man who is greedy and despises Christmas until his eventual redemption and is the protagonist of A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
- Uncle Scrooge
- A rich miser
It is an anomaly of our times that an Uncle Sam spending at a rate of some $128 billion yearly should become an Uncle Scrooge in the treatment of government workers!.
- scrooges
- plural of scrooge
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ScroogeTürkische aussprache
skrucSynonyme
ebenezer scrooge, cheapskate, meanie, misanthrope, misanthropist, miser, moneygrubber, niggard, penny-pincher, tightwadAussprache
/ˈskro͞oʤ/ /ˈskruːʤ/
Etymologie
[ 'skrüj ] (noun.) 1899. 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.Resimler
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