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scroungings

scroungings is the plural of scrounging.

Meaning of scrounging

Noun

scrounging (plural scroungings)

  1. The act of one who scrounges.
    • What mattered to Vincenzo may have been a temporary lack of money (his wild living led him into frequent scroungings for cash; he was a bit of a spendthrift).2002, Marie-Anne Lescourret, Rubens: A Portrait, page 160
  2. (in plural) Material that has been scrounged.
    • Most of them were armed but not wealthy, outfitted in battered leather and the scroungings of a half-dozen battlefields.2010, Liane Merciel, The River Kings' Road, page 110

Questions about scroungings

What is scroungings the plural of?
Scroungings is the plural of scrounging.

Words near scroungings in the dictionary

  1. scrounginess
  2. scrounging
  3. scrounging down
  4. scrounging out
  5. scrounging up
  6. scroungings
  7. scroungy
  8. scrow
  9. scrowdge
  10. scrowdged
  11. scrowdges

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