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What does Scrooge and Pringles mean?

by Pringles Scrooge (guest)

8/20/2004, 2:49 PM

I saw "prindle" and thought 'bout the potato chip producer "Pringles" it seems like a surname but... what does it means? and... Scrooge is now an English word and dictionaries everywhere derive it from the world-famous "a christmass-charol" but... What made Dickens choose it as a surname? Does it was a real surname or he made it up? What would be it's etymology beyond and behind the work which popularized it into it's current meaning?

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- Sean Foglai (guest) +2

8/21/2004, 8:42 PM

Not sure about Pringles ...maybe also related to "prince", but an etymolgy book cites 'scrounge' related to 'scrunge' meaning "to steal" as an English dialectic word ...

- Pavlos (guest) +1

8/31/2004, 5:25 AM

According to the OED, a pringle is a silver coin

- Anon. (guest)

11/6/2004, 10:11 AM

Do you mean any silver coin or a certain type?

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