scrooge

noun

1. A miserly person; a person with an excessive dislike of spending money or other resources.
2. A person who is grumpy about the Christmas holidays.

verb

1. To behave in a greedy or miserly way.

   “Mr. Chairman, $6 million is 15 times more than what the President earns and 30 times more than what a Cabinet Secretary earns. The Christmas Eve announcement of these bonuses was greeted by one commentator by saying the taxpayers got scrooged.”

   “He went back to live in Clayton with dad and tearfully explained to him about Aunt Eliza and her mean, scrooging ways.”

   “[…]corporations scrooging their way out of paying taxes.”

2. (UK, US, dialectal)To crush or press; to squeeze (past, into, together, etc.).

   “So he scraped and scratched and scrabbled and scrooged, then he scrooged again[.]”

name

1. The fictional character Ebenezer Scrooge.