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plural scrooges
A miserly person; a person with an excessive dislike of spending money or other resources. examples
A person who is grumpy about the Christmas holidays. examples
third-person singular simple present scrooges, present participle scrooging, simple past and past participle scrooged
(UK, US, dialect) To crush or press; to squeeze (past, into, together, etc.). quotations examples
So he scraped and scratched and scrabbled and scrooged, then he scrooged again[.]
1908, Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows, London: Wordsworth Classics, published 1993, page 12