English > scrounger: 1 sense > noun 1, person Meaning | someone who mooches or cadges (tries to get something free). |
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Synonyms | moocher, mooch, cadger |
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Narrower | schnorrer, shnorrer | (Yiddish) a scrounger who takes advantage of the generosity of others |
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Broader | beggar, mendicant | A pauper who lives by begging |
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Spanish | buitre, chupón, chupóptero, gorrón, sableador, sablista |
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Catalan | gorrer, gorrista, vividor |
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Verbs | scrounge | collect or look around for (food) |
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scrounge | obtain or seek to obtain by cadging or wheedling / wheedling |