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Ebenezer

Ebenezer

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A man's name often linked to the Dickens character Scrooge
  • proper noun
  • /ˌɛbɪˈniːzər/
: Ebenezer
  • In this classic tale by Charles Dickens, you'll meet the original Grinch, i.e., Ebenezer Scrooge.
  • Ebenezer Devotion
  • Ebenezer Howard
  • Ebenezer Gay

Don't name your fucking kid Ebenezer, all right?

Examples

  • And the same thing will happen to you, Ebenezer Scrooge.

    Mickey's Christmas Carol (1983)

  • "Bah-humbug, I'm Ebenezer Scrooge and I hate Christmas because it's so much work..."

    A Bad Moms Christmas (2017)

  • You fear the world too much, Ebenezer.

    A Christmas Carol (2009)

  • Thank me not, Ebenezer, for soon you shall be visited by the final spirit.

    Scrooged (1988)

  • Old Ebenezer Scrooge, alone in his gloomy chambers...

    Scrooged (1988)

  • Hell, every Christmas we celebrate the tale of the wealthy Ebenezer Scrooge in A Christmas Carol.

    Blog text (11)

  • You fear the world too much, Ebenezer.

  • Bah-humbug, I'm Ebenezer Scrooge and I hate Christmas because it's so much work...

  • In Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol, published that same year, Ebenezer Scrooge worries that a note is payable.

Surface Forms

Ebenezer main

Etymology

Ebenezer comes from the Hebrew Eben-Ezer, where eben means 'stone' and ezer means 'help'. So the name literally means 'stone of help', an image that makes it easy to remember for a person who gives support or, like Scrooge in stories, changes for the better.