"scrooge" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From the character Ebenezer Scrooge in the Charles Dickens' novel A Christmas Carol.",
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        "A miserly person; a person with an excessive dislike of spending money or other resources."
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        "A person who is grumpy about the Christmas holidays."
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