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Scrooge

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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
Scrooge/skruːʤ/

▶noun a person who is mean with money.

– origin from the name of Ebenezer Scrooge, a miser in Charles Dickens's novel A Christmas Carol.

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