scrooge



scrooge

(skrudʒ)
n. a stingy person; a penny-pincher. (From the character in Dickens’s A Christmas Carol.) Ask scrooge over there if you can borrow a quarter to call the cops.

Common Names:

NameGenderPronouncedUsage
Sapphirasə-FIE-rə (English)Biblical
Ayodele-Western African, Yoruba
Oresteso-RES-teez (English)Greek Mythology
Prudenzioproo-DEN-tsyoItalian
Vasilica-Romanian
NÁNdor-Hungarian