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SCROUNGER
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Someone who mooches or cadges (tries to get something free)
Synonyms:
cadger; mooch; moocher; scrounger
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("scrounger" is a kind of...):
beggar; mendicant (a pauper who lives by begging)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "scrounger"):
schnorrer; shnorrer ((Yiddish) a scrounger who takes advantage of the generosity of others)
Derivation:
scrounge (collect or look around for (food))
scrounge (obtain or seek to obtain by cadging or wheedling)