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    SCROUNGER

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    Someone who mooches or cadges (tries to get something free)play

    Synonyms:

    cadger; mooch; moocher; scrounger

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting people

    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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