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SCROUNGER
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Dictionary entry overview: What does scrounger mean?
• SCROUNGER (noun)
The noun SCROUNGER has 1 sense:
1. someone who mooches or cadges (tries to get something free)
Familiarity information: SCROUNGER used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Someone who mooches or cadges (tries to get something free)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
cadger; mooch; moocher; scrounger
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)
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