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scrounger

scrounger noun: one who scrounges.

Noun

scrounger (plural scroungers)

  1. One who scrounges.
    • You get out of me kitchen, you low-down scrounger! I ain't going to have you in here, giving me cheek to me face and drinkin' beer I got to pay for.1950, Norman Lindsay, Dust or Polish?, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 151
    • For a mad two hours, artists, critics, hangers-on, insiders, befuddled outsiders and outright scroungers mingle, collide, preen, dish, fawn, toady, snub and, as a last resort, take a fleeting glance at the art on the wall.1995 February 10, William Grimes, “When Art Puts on a Party Hat: A Guide to Gallery Openings”, in The New York Times

scrounger meaning in Malayalam

scrounger in Malayalam

borrower, beggar, parasite
തെണ്ടി, ഇരപ്പാളി, എരവാളി, ഏമാളി, പെറുക്കി, യാചിതാ

Examples of scrounger in a sentence

  • Elwood seems at first a typical army scrounger and lurkman with his latest model Mercedes and every creature comfort but he is a ruthless and greedy drug pedlar.1993, The Bulletin - Volume 115, page 87:
  • Harbert was our dog robber (scrounger), had been since he joined the outfit in Guadalcanal.2003, G Holcomb, No Quarter Asked No Quarter Given, →ISBN, page 80:

Synonyms of scrounger

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Antonyms

All synonyms and antonyms of scrounger

Forms of scrounger

pluralscroungers

Origin of scrounger

From scrounge + -er.

Questions about scrounger

What does scrounger mean?
Scrounger means one who scrounges.
What is scrounger in Malayalam?
Scrounger in Malayalam is തെണ്ടി, ഇരപ്പാളി, എരവാളി. See Scrounger meaning in Malayalam.
How do you use scrounger in a sentence?
Elwood seems at first a typical army scrounger and lurkman with his latest model Mercedes and every creature comfort but he is a ruthless and greedy drug pedlar.
What part of speech is scrounger?
Scrounger is a noun.
What is the plural of scrounger?
The plural of scrounger is scroungers.

Words near scrounger in the dictionary

  1. scrounge up
  2. scrounged
  3. scrounged down
  4. scrounged out
  5. scrounged up
  6. scrounger
  7. scroungers
  8. scrounges
  9. scrounges down
  10. scrounges out
  11. scrounges up

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Adapted from Wiktionary: scrounger (page history and authors); scrounger (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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