The meaning of Sponger

noun

A person, typically a homeless one, who lives by asking for money or food.

Usage examples:

How many times have you been asked in the street for some money from a seemingly homeless person or…

verb

Reduce (someone) to poverty.

Usage examples:

Why should i beggar myself for you?

noun

A poor person who lives by asking others for money or food

noun

An insect or other animal that sucks blood, especially a leech or a mosquito.

Usage examples:

The female mosquitoes become the bloodsuckers, and they use their long proboscis to bite other anim…

noun

An animal or insect that sucks blood from other animals

Usage examples:

Leeches and mosquitoes are bloodsuckers.

noun

A scrounger.

Usage examples:

Just look at that bludger, can't get his thieving hands on the cash fast enough

noun

Someone who relies on the efforts of other people and wants to have things without working for them

Usage examples:

People thought i was lazy and a bludger.

noun

A vagrant.

Usage examples:

Bums had been known to wander up to their door and ask for a sandwich

verb

Get by asking or begging.

Usage examples:

They tried to bum money off us

adjective

Of poor quality; bad or wrong.

Usage examples:

Not one bum note was played

noun

A person who tries to get something from someone else without paying for it

Usage examples:

Watch out - he’s a cadger who will borrow anything you have and never return it.

verb

Make a continuous low humming sound.

Usage examples:

In the far distance a machine droned

noun

A continuous low humming sound.

Usage examples:

He nodded off to the drone of the car engine

noun

A low, continuous noise

Usage examples:

I could hear the drone of an airplane., the radio droned in the background while we talked.

noun

A person who takes advantage of others' generosity without giving anything in return.

Usage examples:

They look like a bunch of freeloaders trying to take advantage of the whole situation.

noun

A person who has the advantage of something given, such as money, food, or a place to stay, without offering anything in exchange

noun

A person who tries to be friendly and spend time with rich or important people to get some advantage

Usage examples:

Wherever there are rock stars, there are always hangers-on.

noun

A person who regularly goes on trips or attends functions at another's expense, typically for supposed work purposes.

Usage examples:

The junketeers also charged videos to council credit cards instead of paying for them out of their …

noun

An aquatic or terrestrial annelid worm with suckers at both ends. many species are bloodsucking parasites, especially of vertebrates, and others are predators.

Usage examples:

The rhynchobdellids are strictly aquatic leeches that have small, porelike mouths in the oral sucker.

verb

Habitually exploit or rely on.

Usage examples:

He's leeching off the abilities of others

noun

A doctor or healer.

verb

Ask for or obtain (something) without paying for it.

Usage examples:

A bunch of your friends will show up, mooching food

noun

Loiter in a bored or listless manner.

Usage examples:

He just mooched about his bedsit

verb

To walk or do things slowly and without much purpose

Usage examples:

Disapproving stop mooching (about/around) in your room and do something useful!, you're old enough …

noun

A person who lives off others without giving anything in return.

Usage examples:

No one gave me any handouts like these moochers expect

noun

An organism that lives in or on an organism of another species (its host) and benefits by deriving nutrients at the other's expense.

Usage examples:

The parasite attaches itself to the mouths of fishes

noun

An animal or plant that lives on or in another animal or plant of a different type and feeds from it

noun

A traveller on a public or private conveyance other than the driver, pilot, or crew.

Usage examples:

More than 50 passengers escaped injury when a train was derailed

noun

A beggar or scrounger; a layabout.

Usage examples:

In paris cafe society we may be viewed as petty tyrants but, say what you will, at least we are not…

noun

A person who borrows from or lives off others.

Usage examples:

Welfare scroungers

noun

A primitive sedentary aquatic invertebrate with a soft porous body that is typically supported by a framework of fibres or calcareous or glassy spicules. sponges draw in a current of water to extract nutrients and oxygen.

Usage examples:

Other images are just as mystifying the spine of a sea urchin, sharks' teeth, sponges and ascidians…

verb

Wipe or clean with a wet sponge or cloth.

Usage examples:

She sponged him down in an attempt to cool his fever

noun

Primitive multicellular marine animal whose porous body is supported by a fibrous skeletal framework; usually occurs in sessile colonies