Uncle Scrooge
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From a Disney character, named in reference to Charles Dickens' fictional miser Ebenezer Scrooge.
Noun[edit]
Uncle Scrooge (plural Uncle Scrooges)
- A rich miser.
- 1967, Committee on Post Office and Civil Service, “Federal Pay Legislation: Hearings, Ninetieth Congress, first session”, in parliamentary debates, U.S. Congress, page 282:
- It is an anomaly of our times that an Uncle Sam spending at a rate of some $128 billion yearly should become an Uncle Scrooge in the treatment of government workers!
Quotations[edit]
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:Uncle Scrooge.
Related terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
rich miser
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