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"etymology_text": "From a Disney character, named in reference to Charles Dickens' fictional miser Ebenezer Scrooge.",
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"ref": "1967, Committee on Post Office and Civil Service, “Federal Pay Legislation: Hearings, Ninetieth Congress, first session”, in parliamentary debates, U.S. Congress, page 282",
"text": "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!",
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"A rich miser."
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"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "Aleumu Dahab",
"sense": "rich miser",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "العم دهب"
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{
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "rich miser",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "Onkel Joakim"
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{
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "rich miser",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "Joakim von And"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "rich miser",
"word": "Roope Ankka"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "rich miser",
"word": "Roope-setä"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "rich miser",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "picsou"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "rich miser",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Dagobert Duck"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "rich miser",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Onkel Dagobert"
},
{
"code": "he",
"lang": "Hebrew",
"roman": "hadod kamtzutz",
"sense": "rich miser",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "הדוד קמצוץ"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "rich miser",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "paperone"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "rich miser",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Paperone"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "rich miser",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Tio Patinhas"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "Djádja Skrudž",
"sense": "rich miser",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Дя́дя Скрудж"
}
],
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"Scrooge McDuck"
]
}
],
"word": "Uncle Scrooge"
}
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"text": "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!",
"type": "quotation"
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"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "Aleumu Dahab",
"sense": "rich miser",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "العم دهب"
},
{
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "rich miser",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
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"word": "Onkel Joakim"
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{
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"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "rich miser",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "Joakim von And"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "rich miser",
"word": "Roope Ankka"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "rich miser",
"word": "Roope-setä"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "rich miser",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "picsou"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "rich miser",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Dagobert Duck"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "rich miser",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Onkel Dagobert"
},
{
"code": "he",
"lang": "Hebrew",
"roman": "hadod kamtzutz",
"sense": "rich miser",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "הדוד קמצוץ"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "rich miser",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "paperone"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "rich miser",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Paperone"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "rich miser",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Tio Patinhas"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "Djádja Skrudž",
"sense": "rich miser",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Дя́дя Скрудж"
}
],
"word": "Uncle Scrooge"
}
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