Dickensian

en-adj

Dickensian (comparative more Dickensian, superlative most Dickensian)

more Dickensian (comparative)
most Dickensian (superlative)

From Dickens (the surname of Charles Dickens (1812–1870)) + -ian (suffix forming adjectives or nouns meaning ‘belonging to, relating to, or like’).

af

Of, pertaining to, or created by the English author Charles Dickens.

dickensià

of, pertaining to, or created by the English author Charles Dickens

a Dickensian name

Similar to Dickens' writing style, especially in commenting on society, or in using emotion, humour, or rich descriptions.

At last the first glimpse from a bridge of an open-top red bus, and a noticeable darkening of the atmosphere from the smoke of London: then the increasingly dingy stations with double-barrel names, set amid what has always been to me the outstanding feature of the "Premier Line" approach to London—the positively marvellous display of crazy chimney-pots on the grey inner suburban houses. As many as twenty, all of varying style, standing together like ranks of jagged teeth, and providing a Dickensian back-cloth which no other route can boast.

1951 October, R. S. McNaught, “Lines of Approach”, in Railway Magazine, page 704:

As though in expiation of their sires' wealth, schoolboys often had to live in conditions that would have disgraced a Dickensian workhouse.

1988, Cecil D. Eby, “Playing the Game”, in The Road to Armageddon: The Martial Spirit in English Popular Literature 1870–1914, Durham, N.C., London: Duke University Press, →ISBN, page 89:

As earlier implied, the planet is threatened on three major fronts: […] (3) by a Dickensian world of wretched excess and wretched despair.

1993, William Sloane Coffin, “A Vision of the Future”, in A Passion for the Possible: A Message to U.S. Churches, Louisville, Ky.: Westminster/John Knox Press, →ISBN, page 10:

Down in the subway under the roundabout the looming social ordeal started to weigh down on me, […] By the time I pressed a huge and over-polished brass bell I'd devolved into a shifty-eyed, cinder-cheeked Dickensian urchin, and when the door opened I half expected to see Mrs Bridges throw up her fat, floury hands and scream for the cook's boy.

2001 February, Tim Moore, “Prologue”, in Frost on My Moustache: The Arctic Exploits of a Lord and a Loafer, New York, N.Y.: St. Martin’s Griffin, St. Martin’s Press, →ISBN, page 2:

Leaning against piracy fits in with China's desire to cast off its image of a country where exploited workers toil for a pittance in Dickensian factories that turn the air and water black with the pollution they discharge.

2008 September 15, Alan Wheatley, “China getting higher marks for tackling piracy”, in Reuters, archived from the original on 2010-04-23:

Reminiscent of the environments and situations most commonly portrayed in Dickens' writings, such as poverty, social injustice, and other aspects of Victorian England.

dickensià

reminiscent of the environments and situations most commonly portrayed in Dickens’ writings, such as poverty, social injustice, and other aspects of Victorian England


Dickensian

A person who admires or studies the works of Charles Dickens.


scrooge

From the character Ebenezer Scrooge in the Charles Dickens' novel A Christmas Carol.

A miserly person; a person with an excessive dislike of spending money or other resources.

A person who is grumpy about the Christmas holidays.


scrooge

en-verb

scrooge (third-person singular simple present scrooges, present participle scrooging, simple past and past participle scrooged)

scrooges (present singular third-person)
scrooging (participle present)
scrooged (participle past)
scrooged (past)

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

1908, Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows, London: Wordsworth Classics, published 1993, page 12:

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


Dickens

Dickens (nominative singular)
Dickensa (genitive singular)
Dickensowi (dative singular)
Dickensa (accusative singular)
Dickensem (instrumental singular)
Dickensie (locative singular)
Dickensie (singular vocative)


Scrooge

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The fictional character Ebenezer Scrooge.


Dickensianly

en-adv

Dickensianly (comparative more Dickensianly, superlative most Dickensianly)

more Dickensianly (comparative)
most Dickensianly (superlative)


dickensien

fr-adj

dickensien (feminine dickensienne, masculine plural dickensiens, feminine plural dickensiennes)

dickensienne (feminine)
dickensiens (masculine plural)
dickensiennes (feminine plural)


Scroogelike

en-adj

Scroogelike (comparative more Scroogelike, superlative most Scroogelike)

more Scroogelike (comparative)
most Scroogelike (superlative)

Like Ebenezer Scrooge; bad-tempered, selfish and miserly.


Ebenezer Scrooge

en-noun

Ebenezer Scrooge (plural Ebenezer Scrooges)

After the character in Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol.


Jacob Marley

A fictional man who appears as a ghost in Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol, warning his former business partner Ebenezer Scrooge against being greedy and selfish.


Ghost of Christmas Past

A fictional ghost in A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, who visits Ebenezer Scrooge in order to show him his past, especially certain events of past Christmases that contributed to his later distaste for Christmas.


Ghost of Christmas Present

the Ghost of Christmas Present (canonical)

A fictional ghost in A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, who visits Ebenezer Scrooge accompanied by a great feast in order to show him events of the current Christmas.

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Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come

the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come (canonical)

A fictional ghost in A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens; it visits Ebenezer Scrooge in order to show his impending fate of death and loneliness in a future Christmas that is ultimately avoided.


Ghost of Christmas Future

the Ghost of Christmas Future (canonical)

The character first appeared in the book A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, written in 1843, and called Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come. The name Ghost of Christmas Future was coined by analogy with Ghost of Christmas Past and Ghost of Christmas Present.

Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come
Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come#English

Synonym of Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come


Tiny Tim

The crutches on the bottom look like the Tiny Tim model, while the top sports stainless steel walkers and canes and a few crutches that look like they are made from the same stuff as fancy tennis rackets and golf clubs.

2006, Brendan Halpin, Long Way Back, Random House, published 2008, →ISBN, page 67:

A poor disabled boy whose death is ultimately averted by Ebenezer Scrooge in the classic tale A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens.


dickensiano

es-adj

dickensiano (feminine dickensiana, masculine plural dickensianos, feminine plural dickensianas)

dickensiana (feminine)
dickensianos (masculine plural)
dickensianas (feminine plural)

Diga victoriano y pensará en trenes de vapor, en expansión industrial y geográfica, en miseria dickensiana, en Londres marcando el ritmo del planeta.

2015 September 13, “Isabel II, la reina sin época”, in El País:


dickensovský

dickensovský (masculine nominative singular)
dickensovská (feminine nominative singular)
dickensovské (neuter nominative singular)
dickensovského (genitive masculine singular)
dickensovské (feminine genitive singular)
dickensovského (genitive neuter singular)
dickensovskému (dative masculine singular)
dickensovské (dative feminine singular)
dickensovskému (dative neuter singular)
dickensovského (accusative animate masculine singular)
dickensovský (accusative inanimate masculine singular)
dickensovskou (accusative feminine singular)
dickensovské (accusative neuter singular)
dickensovském (locative masculine singular)
dickensovské (feminine locative singular)
dickensovském (locative neuter singular)
dickensovským (instrumental masculine singular)
dickensovskou (feminine instrumental singular)
dickensovským (instrumental neuter singular)
dickensovští (animate masculine nominative plural)
dickensovské (feminine nominative)
dickensovské (inanimate nominative)
dickensovská (neuter nominative plural)
dickensovských (genitive plural)
dickensovským (dative plural)
dickensovské (accusative feminine plural)
dickensovská (accusative neuter plural)
dickensovských (locative plural)
dickensovskými (instrumental plural)


dickensiläinen

fi-adj

dickensiläinen (comparative dickensiläisempi, superlative dickensiläisin)

dickensiläisempi (comparative)
dickensiläisin (superlative)
dickensiläinen (nominative singular)
dickensiläiset (nominative plural)
dickensiläinen (accusative nominative singular)
dickensiläiset (accusative nominative plural)
dickensiläisen (accusative genitive singular)
dickensiläiset (accusative genitive plural)
dickensiläisen (genitive singular)
dickensiläisten (genitive plural)
dickensiläisien (genitive plural)
dickensiläistä (partitive singular)
dickensiläisiä (partitive plural)
dickensiläisessä (inessive singular)
dickensiläisissä (inessive plural)
dickensiläisestä (elative singular)
dickensiläisistä (elative plural)
dickensiläiseen (illative singular)
dickensiläisiin (illative plural)
dickensiläisellä (adessive singular)
dickensiläisillä (adessive plural)
dickensiläiseltä (ablative singular)
dickensiläisiltä (ablative plural)
dickensiläiselle (allative singular)
dickensiläisille (allative plural)
dickensiläisenä (essive singular)
dickensiläisinä (essive plural)
dickensiläiseksi (singular translative)
dickensiläisiksi (plural translative)
dickensiläisettä (abessive singular)
dickensiläisittä (abessive plural)
dickensiläisin (instructive plural)
dickensiläisine (comitative plural)
dickensiläiseni (nominative singular)
dickensiläiseni (nominative plural)
dickensiläiseni (accusative nominative singular)
dickensiläiseni (accusative nominative plural)
dickensiläiseni (accusative genitive singular)
dickensiläiseni (accusative genitive plural)
dickensiläiseni (genitive singular)
dickensiläisteni (genitive plural)
dickensiläisieni (genitive plural)
dickensiläistäni (partitive singular)
dickensiläisiäni (partitive plural)
dickensiläisessäni (inessive singular)
dickensiläisissäni (inessive plural)
dickensiläisestäni (elative singular)
dickensiläisistäni (elative plural)
dickensiläiseeni (illative singular)
dickensiläisiini (illative plural)
dickensiläiselläni (adessive singular)
dickensiläisilläni (adessive plural)
dickensiläiseltäni (ablative singular)
dickensiläisiltäni (ablative plural)
dickensiläiselleni (allative singular)
dickensiläisilleni (allative plural)
dickensiläisenäni (essive singular)
dickensiläisinäni (essive plural)
dickensiläisekseni (singular translative)
dickensiläisikseni (plural translative)
dickensiläisettäni (abessive singular)
dickensiläisittäni (abessive plural)
dickensiläisineni (comitative plural)
dickensiläisesi (nominative singular)
dickensiläisesi (nominative plural)
dickensiläisesi (accusative nominative singular)
dickensiläisesi (accusative nominative plural)
dickensiläisesi (accusative genitive singular)
dickensiläisesi (accusative genitive plural)
dickensiläisesi (genitive singular)
dickensiläistesi (genitive plural)
dickensiläisiesi (genitive plural)
dickensiläistäsi (partitive singular)
dickensiläisiäsi (partitive plural)
dickensiläisessäsi (inessive singular)
dickensiläisissäsi (inessive plural)
dickensiläisestäsi (elative singular)
dickensiläisistäsi (elative plural)
dickensiläiseesi (illative singular)
dickensiläisiisi (illative plural)
dickensiläiselläsi (adessive singular)
dickensiläisilläsi (adessive plural)
dickensiläiseltäsi (ablative singular)
dickensiläisiltäsi (ablative plural)
dickensiläisellesi (allative singular)
dickensiläisillesi (allative plural)
dickensiläisenäsi (essive singular)
dickensiläisinäsi (essive plural)
dickensiläiseksesi (singular translative)
dickensiläisiksesi (plural translative)
dickensiläisettäsi (abessive singular)
dickensiläisittäsi (abessive plural)
dickensiläisinesi (comitative plural)
dickensiläisemme (nominative singular)
dickensiläisemme (nominative plural)
dickensiläisemme (accusative nominative singular)
dickensiläisemme (accusative nominative plural)
dickensiläisemme (accusative genitive singular)
dickensiläisemme (accusative genitive plural)
dickensiläisemme (genitive singular)
dickensiläistemme (genitive plural)
dickensiläisiemme (genitive plural)
dickensiläistämme (partitive singular)
dickensiläisiämme (partitive plural)
dickensiläisessämme (inessive singular)
dickensiläisissämme (inessive plural)
dickensiläisestämme (elative singular)
dickensiläisistämme (elative plural)
dickensiläiseemme (illative singular)
dickensiläisiimme (illative plural)
dickensiläisellämme (adessive singular)
dickensiläisillämme (adessive plural)
dickensiläiseltämme (ablative singular)
dickensiläisiltämme (ablative plural)
dickensiläisellemme (allative singular)
dickensiläisillemme (allative plural)
dickensiläisenämme (essive singular)
dickensiläisinämme (essive plural)
dickensiläiseksemme (singular translative)
dickensiläisiksemme (plural translative)
dickensiläisettämme (abessive singular)
dickensiläisittämme (abessive plural)
dickensiläisinemme (comitative plural)
dickensiläisenne (nominative singular)
dickensiläisenne (nominative plural)
dickensiläisenne (accusative nominative singular)
dickensiläisenne (accusative nominative plural)
dickensiläisenne (accusative genitive singular)
dickensiläisenne (accusative genitive plural)
dickensiläisenne (genitive singular)
dickensiläistenne (genitive plural)
dickensiläisienne (genitive plural)
dickensiläistänne (partitive singular)
dickensiläisiänne (partitive plural)
dickensiläisessänne (inessive singular)
dickensiläisissänne (inessive plural)
dickensiläisestänne (elative singular)
dickensiläisistänne (elative plural)
dickensiläiseenne (illative singular)
dickensiläisiinne (illative plural)
dickensiläisellänne (adessive singular)
dickensiläisillänne (adessive plural)
dickensiläiseltänne (ablative singular)
dickensiläisiltänne (ablative plural)
dickensiläisellenne (allative singular)
dickensiläisillenne (allative plural)
dickensiläisenänne (essive singular)
dickensiläisinänne (essive plural)
dickensiläiseksenne (singular translative)
dickensiläisiksenne (plural translative)
dickensiläisettänne (abessive singular)
dickensiläisittänne (abessive plural)
dickensiläisinenne (comitative plural)
dickensiläisensä (nominative singular)
dickensiläisensä (nominative plural)
dickensiläisensä (accusative nominative singular)
dickensiläisensä (accusative nominative plural)
dickensiläisensä (accusative genitive singular)
dickensiläisensä (accusative genitive plural)
dickensiläisensä (genitive singular)
dickensiläistensä (genitive plural)
dickensiläisiensä (genitive plural)
dickensiläistään (partitive singular)
dickensiläistänsä (partitive singular)
dickensiläisiään (partitive plural)
dickensiläisiänsä (partitive plural)
dickensiläisessään (inessive singular)
dickensiläisessänsä (inessive singular)
dickensiläisissään (inessive plural)
dickensiläisissänsä (inessive plural)
dickensiläisestään (elative singular)
dickensiläisestänsä (elative singular)
dickensiläisistään (elative plural)
dickensiläisistänsä (elative plural)
dickensiläiseensä (illative singular)
dickensiläisiinsä (illative plural)
dickensiläisellään (adessive singular)
dickensiläisellänsä (adessive singular)
dickensiläisillään (adessive plural)
dickensiläisillänsä (adessive plural)
dickensiläiseltään (ablative singular)
dickensiläiseltänsä (ablative singular)
dickensiläisiltään (ablative plural)
dickensiläisiltänsä (ablative plural)
dickensiläiselleen (allative singular)
dickensiläisellensä (allative singular)
dickensiläisilleen (allative plural)
dickensiläisillensä (allative plural)
dickensiläisenään (essive singular)
dickensiläisenänsä (essive singular)
dickensiläisinään (essive plural)
dickensiläisinänsä (essive plural)
dickensiläisekseen (singular translative)
dickensiläiseksensä (singular translative)
dickensiläisikseen (plural translative)
dickensiläisiksensä (plural translative)
dickensiläisettään (abessive singular)
dickensiläisettänsä (abessive singular)
dickensiläisittään (abessive plural)
dickensiläisittänsä (abessive plural)
dickensiläisineen (comitative plural)
dickensiläisinensä (comitative plural)


Dickensesque

en-adj

Dickensesque (comparative more Dickensesque, superlative most Dickensesque)

more Dickensesque (comparative)
most Dickensesque (superlative)

Characteristic of the writings of the English author Charles Dickens.


Dickensiana

Objects, materials, or documents relating to Charles Dickens (1812–1870), English writer and social critic.


Scroogian

Scroogian (comparative more Scroogian, superlative most Scroogian)

more Scroogian (comparative)
most Scroogian (superlative)
Scroogean (alternative)


Scroogean

Scroogean (comparative more Scroogean, superlative most Scroogean)

more Scroogean (comparative)
most Scroogean (superlative)


Scroogesque

Scroogesque (comparative more Scroogesque, superlative most Scroogesque)

more Scroogesque (comparative)
most Scroogesque (superlative)

The Tories have been positively Scroogesque with our accumulated billions.

1981 May 21, William Thorsell, “Life’s a ball, a Fund-thing”, in Edmonton Journal, page A4:

To me, growing increasingly Scroogesque, each day is a Winterreise, without the snow, the linden tree, the cold (though a chute or two is pneumonia-drafty) or the weather-vane.

1986, Studs Terkel, Chicago, Pantheon Books, →ISBN, page 2:

I mean three years ago in this very supplement of your newspaper some fool actually wrote an article called ‘How to Ruin Your Child’s Christmas’. That kind of stuff gets back to me and it hurts. I mean, we can do without that sort of Scroogesque rubbish.

1987 December 24, “Santa Claus”, quotee, “The Santa Interview”, in The Age, 134th year, number 41,364, page 1:

Many gardeners are lukewarm toward poinsettias. The main trouble with them is they stay in bloom till March, but I suppose it’s Scroogesque to complain of a pot plant that behaves so well.

1988 December 23, Henry Mitchell, “‘Rotten’ gifts for gardeners grow cheer”, in The Daily Sentinel, volume 97, number 23, Grand Junction, Colo., page 1C:

The great guru X Moore, former lead singer of Trotskyist skinhead band The Redskins, took a less Scroogesque view. He claimed that Xmas is but a foretaste of the coming socialist millennium[…]

To the Scroogesque reference to a Christmas party which I attended, along with City staff, I must clear up the events that actually took place.

1995 January 19, “An Open Letter to the Community from Willie Preston, Mayor Pro Tem”, in Lincoln News Messenger, volume 104, number 16, Lincoln, Calif., page 3:

Gardner suggests the perfect gift for the person in your life who has it all — nothing! It’s not as Scroogesque as it sounds. She recommends giving a gift from her Global Gift Guide instead. Such gifts might include clothing and shelter for a homeless child in Vietnam for $35 a month or dental exams for children in Cambodia.

1996 December 10, Dolores Tropiano, “Putting Heart in the Holidays: Generous deeds bring out true meaning of the season”, in The Arizona Republic, 107th year, number 206, Phoenix, Ariz., page C1:

I’ve owned and ridden a motorcycle for three years, and on Sunday morning I took part in the 20th annual Vancouver Toy Run for the third time. It is a great event that provides a little bit of joy not only for the participants, but also for the thousands of Lower Mainland children who are recipients of the donated toys. I’m saddened by Burnaby’s Scroogesque attitude to the Toy Run, as are many others (‘Families disadvantaged’ by disappointing run, Oct. 26).

1998 October 29, Mike Stanger, “Happy event hurt by image of bikers as bad guys”, in The Vancouver Sun, page A18:

Of course, I love giving gifts, because I’m a loving and giving sorta girl. But not that loving and giving, because I’ll only do it on my terms, which unfortunately also means that I don’t like giving gifts when you’re meant to give them. So I am rubbish at birthdays and only slightly better at Christmas (and then only because I like expensive, glitzily-themed wrapping concepts). The problem is, I worry so extraordinarily about getting it right that, forever teetering on the brink of extravagant impulse buys and Scroogesque denial, I sometimes don’t get it at all rather than get it remotely wrong.

1998 November 22, The Observer, page 44:

What is it about each passing Christmas that causes the next to seem so appealing? Maybe it’s the fact that the next is a full year away! That may seem Scroogesque, but there is a bit of truth in it for a lot of adults.

1998 December 24, Clay McFerrin, “What’s in the value of a gift?”, in The Charleston Sun-Sentinel, volume 75, number 52, Charleston, Miss., page 4:

Buying shoes without shoe boxes bespeaks cheapness of Scroogesque proportions.

2001, Stephen Brown, Marketing – the Retro Revolution, SAGE Publications, →ISBN, page 96:

The lines, in short, suggest themselves as a Scroogesque anti-echo of verse written at the century’s start: / My meat shall all come in, in Indian shells, / Dishes of agat set in gold, and studded / With emeralds, sapphires, hyacinths and rubies.

2003, Anthony Fowles, John Dryden: A Critical Study, Greenwich Exchange, page 92:

Although overall holiday-sales forecasts range from Panglossian to Scroogesque, analysts agree that online shopping is booming.

2003 December 15, Paul Andrews, “Christmas Clicking”, in U.S. News & World Report, page 42:

Perhaps I’m being a little Scroogesque to inform Susie “No Mates” Rushton about all the beautiful Christmas cards that have been dropping heavily into our hallway, courtesy of our friendly postman.

2008 December 24, David Fee, quotee, The Independent, number 6,925, page 26:

Truth is for me I didn't know whether it was managerial incompetence or planned Scroogesque mismanagement. Always being such a tight arse to this extreme is bad management in the restaurant game.

2014, Stephen Scala, Curly Dish Pig Tales, Balboa Press, Hay House, →ISBN, page 123:

Resembling or characteristic of Ebenezer Scrooge; bad-tempered, selfish and miserly.


Scroogey

Scroogey (comparative more Scroogey, superlative most Scroogey)

more Scroogey (comparative)
most Scroogey (superlative)

The idea comes from a particularly Scroogey, and infamous, paper by the economist Joel Waldfogel, who estimated that the deadweight loss from gift-giving is one-tenth to one-third of the gift’s value.

2015 December 18, Ana Swanson, “Why cash is the worst gift”, in The Washington Post:

Before you write off this review as uncharitably Scroogey, take note: four children, ages eight to 11, gathered round the television to attend the screening. Plied with mugs of sugary cocoa, a frighteningly willing audience heeded the call of duty.

2022 November 28, Lauren Mechling, “Scrooge: A Christmas Carol review – Netflix’s junky musical is a lump of coal”, in The Guardian:


dickensià

ca-adj

dickensià (feminine dickensiana, masculine plural dickensians, feminine plural dickensianes)

dickensiana (feminine)
dickensians (masculine plural)
dickensianes (feminine plural)

un to dickensià