her father is a real scrooge and refuses to pay her way through college, even though he can easily afford it
Recent Examples on the WebThe trailer begins with Clarke as a disillusioned scrooge who hates her job as an elf at the local Christmas shop. Christi Carras, Los Angeles Times, 14 Aug. 2019 And blue America’s bitter scrooges impatiently explained why this outpouring of corporate largesse was actually bad. Eric Levitz, Daily Intelligencer, 21 Dec. 2017
Word History
Etymology
Ebenezer Scrooge, character in the story A Christmas Carol (1843) by Charles Dickens