- 1守財奴；吝嗇鬼（源自狄更斯《聖誕頌歌》裡的角色）
A Scrooge is someone who hates spending money, even when they have plenty. The name comes from Ebenezer Scrooge, the cold old man in Charles Dickens's book A Christmas Carol, who would not give a penny and who treated poor people badly until the story changed him. We borrowed the character's name for that kind of person. Friends say "Don't be a Scrooge" when someone is being tight about a small treat. It can sting, but it is also used with a laugh, any time of year, not only at Christmas. You will usually see a capital S, because it is still a name; some writers use a small s when they mean the type, not the book. There is a verb to scrooge, meaning to be tight with money, but people far more often use the noun.
組成From the character Ebenezer Scrooge in Charles Dickens's novel A Christmas Carol.
原始詞典資料5 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
Scroogename/skɹuːd͡ʒ/
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The fictional character Ebenezer Scrooge.
scroogenoun詞源 1/skɹuːd͡ʒ/
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A miserly person; a person with an excessive dislike of spending money or other resources.
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A grinch; one who dislikes the Christmas holidays.
scroogeverb詞源 1/skɹuːd͡ʒ/
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To behave in a greedy or miserly way.
- Mr. Chairman, $6 million is 15 times more than what the President earns and 30 times more than what a Cabinet Secretary earns. The Christmas Eve announcement of these bonuses was greeted by one commentator by saying the taxpayers got scrooged.
- He went back to live in Clayton with dad and tearfully explained to him about Aunt Eliza and her mean, scrooging ways.
scroogeverb詞源 2
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dialectalTo crush or press; to squeeze (past, into, together, etc.).
- So he scraped and scratched and scrabbled and scrooged, then he scrooged again[.]
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