sponger

  • 21sponger — spong·er …

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  • 22sponger — /ˈspʌndʒə/ (say spunjuh) noun 1. someone or something that sponges. 2. a person who sponges on others. 3. a person or a vessel engaged in gathering sponges …

  • 23sponger — n. a person who contrives to live at another s expense …

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  • 24parasite — parasite, sycophant, favorite, toady, lickspittle, bootlicker, hanger on, leech, sponge, sponger all signify a person who is supported or sustained or seeks support or sustenance, usually physical but sometimes social or intellectual, from… …

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  • 25sponge — I. noun Etymology: Middle English, from Old English, from Latin spongia, from Greek Date: before 12th century 1. a. (1) an elastic porous mass of interlacing horny fibers that forms the internal skeleton of various marine animals (phylum… …

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  • 26Captivi — Infobox Play | name = Miles Gloriosus caption = Cover of 1965 Penguin Classics edition of Plautus Captivi and other plays writer = Plautus characters = Ergasilus Hegio Overseer Philocrates Tyndarus Aristophontes a page Philopolemus Stalagmus… …

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  • 27James H. Lee — (1840 ndash; August 9, 1877) was an American sailor who was awarded the Medal of Honor for valor in action during the American Civil War.Lee was born on Long Island, New York in 1840but his family moved to Buffalo while he was still a small child …

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  • 28schnorrer — /shnawr euhr, shnohr /, n. Slang. a person who habitually borrows or lives at the expense of others with no intention of repaying; sponger; moocher; beggar. Also, shnorrer. [1890 95; < Yiddish shnorer beggar, sponger, equiv. to shnor(n) to beg&#8230; …

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  • 29beggar — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. suppliant; pauper, mendicant. See poverty, request, populace. II (Roget s IV) n. 1. [One who begs] Syn. mendicant, supplicant, suppliant, lazzarone, cadger, parasite, almsman, lazar, panhandler*,&#8230; …

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  • 30sponge — n 1.Informal, parasite, Inf. sponger, scrounge or scrounger, Sl. mooch or moocher. See sponger. v 2. wipe, wipe off or up, rub, clean, clean off or up, wash or wash off, rinse or rinse off, swab, mop or mop up. 3.Often sponge out wipe out, efface …

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