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Word entry · 7 letters

scrooge

Best crossword clue

"Stingy person"

7 letters · collected on this word page

7 lettersPronunciation /skɹuːd͡ʒ/Part of speech nounSorted cegoorsStarts with SEnds with E1 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. a selfish person who is unwilling to give or spend

Word origin

From the character Ebenezer Scrooge in the Charles Dickens' novel A Christmas Carol.

Used in a sentence

  • He went back to live in Clayton with dad and tearfully explained to him about Aunt Eliza and her mean, scrooging ways.
  • […]corporations scrooging their way out of paying taxes.
  • So he scraped and scratched and scrabbled and scrooged, then he scrooged again[.]

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