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The name "Scrooge" is a variation of an obscure English verb: "to scrouge" or "to scruze."

The verb originally was "to squeeze" or "to press." T

Dickens chose the name "Scrooge" with just this meaning in mind as he describes the character in A Christmas Carol:

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