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Feb 2, 2012 This week's theme Dickensian characters that became words This week's words wellerism fagin gamp scrooge gradgrind Scrooge facing Marley's Ghost Illustration: John Leech (1817-1864) Discuss Feedback RSS/XML A.Word.A.Day with Anu Garg scrooge PRONUNCIATION: (skrooj) MEANING: noun: A miser. ETYMOLOGY: After Ebenezer Scrooge, the mean-spirited, miserly protagonist in Charles Dickens's novel A Christmas Carol. Earliest documented use: 1940. USAGE: "John Hymers was not entirely a Scrooge. There were times when he secretly helped poor people and he built a village library." Sisters Campaigned for a Mixed School at Hymers; Hull Daily Mail (UK); Jan 23, 2012. Explore "scrooge" in the Visual Thesaurus. A THOUGHT FOR TODAY: Mistakes are part of the dues that one pays for a full life. -Sophia Loren, actress (b. 1934)

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