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SCHNORRER
Pronunciation (US): | (GB): |
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
(Yiddish) a scrounger who takes advantage of the generosity of others
Synonyms:
schnorrer; shnorrer
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("schnorrer" is a kind of...):
cadger; mooch; moocher; scrounger (someone who mooches or cadges (tries to get something free))
Domain category:
Yiddish (a dialect of High German including some Hebrew and other words; spoken in Europe as a vernacular by many Jews; written in the Hebrew script)