Scrooge
WordNet
noun
(1) A selfish person who is unwilling to give or spend
WiktionaryText
Etymology
The use of the word came from the name of the character, Ebenezer Scrooge in Charles Dickens book: “A Christmas Carol”, and was thus used to describe someone who acted like the character in the book.
Noun
- A miserly, selfish person.
- Ebenezer Scrooge, a character in Dickens’s A Christmas Carol.