Ebenezer Scrooge
Noun
Meaning
Ebenezer Scrooge (plural Ebenezer Scrooges)
A scrooge; a miser.
Synonyms
Examples
And I don’t imagine our Prime Minister will enjoy being called Ebenezer Scrooge throughout December.
Ebenezer Scrooge, a miserable penny-pinching London businessman, is visited on Christmas Eve by Jacob Marley, his deceased partner.
Ebenezer Scrooge, fiction’s most famous regenerate villain, had come to terms with Christmas and had not missed it after all.
But before I get to this, I want to consider what turned the human being named Ebenezer Scrooge into the archetypal mean-spirited miser.
How did it first come that you took on the part of Ebenezer Scrooge?
I’m not exactly sure when it started, but I have turned into a complete Christmas Grinch, a real old Ebenezer Scrooge.