At the time of the writing of Charles Dickens', A Christmas Carol, "scrooge" was a slang word synonymous with the word, "squeeze". And "a humbug" was a person who put on false airs as in a person who behaves as if everything is rosy when his life is anything but. What Scrooge disapproved of was the false display of gaiety and good will from people who behaved otherwise the rest of the year.
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Jump to PostThen by that definition, I'm definately scrooge-like. I'm even worse at new year, with all the insincerity that brings!
Jump to PostThat's a really interesting original definition. No wonder it got twisted into meaning a cheap and miserable man. Nobody likes to be told that they are hypocrites, they prefer to say that the guy who points it out is a miserable fool.
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