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Scrooge vs Scrouge - What's the difference?

scrooge | scrouge |

As a noun scrooge

is a miserly person; a person with an excessive dislike of spending money or other resources.

As a proper noun Scrooge

is the fictional character Ebenezer Scrooge of Dickens’s A Christmas Carol.

As a verb scrouge is

to crowd; to squeeze.

scrooge

English

Noun

  • A miserly person; a person with an excessive dislike of spending money or other resources.

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    scrouge

    English

    Verb

    (scroug)
  • (UK, dialect, and, US, colloquial) To crowd; to squeeze.
  • * Walter Blair
    • Well, pretty soon the whole town was there, squirming and scrouging and pushing and shoving to get at the window and have a look
  • * 1983 , Judson R. Landis, Sociology: concepts and characteristics
    • I look for veiled eyes or bodies scrouged into a seat in an alien world.
  • * 2001 , Aileen Kilgore Henderson, Stateside Soldier: Life in the Women's Army Corps, 1944-1945 (page 12)
    • We stayed up till eleven, sitting on the stairs, on the floor, and scrouged into the day room, surrounded by stacks of GI clothes.