Can Scrooge Be an Adjective?

adjective. (of a person or their behavior) not generous with money; miserly. 'The problem is the Scrooge-like approach of too many traders. ... 'It won't be a Scrooge-like Christmas in our house after all.

Is Scrooge a noun or adjective?

Eb·e·ne·zer [eb-uh-nee-zer], a miserly curmudgeon in Dickens' Christmas Carol. (often lowercase) any miserly person.

Is Scrooge an idiom?

A miserly, miserable, and utterly uncharitable person. A reference to the character Ebenezer Scrooge in Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol, who exhibited such traits. The boss always turns into such a scrooge when we ask him for additional funding.

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