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spunger

spunger is the obsolete form of sponger.

Meaning of sponger

Noun

sponger (plural spongers)

  1. One who uses a sponge.
  2. A parasitic hanger-on.
    Synonyms:
    moocher
  3. A person or vessel employed in gathering sponges from the sea.
  4. A device for sponging cloth by means of a perforated adjustable cylinder.

Forms of spunger

pluralspungers

Questions about spunger

What is spunger the obsolete form of?
Spunger is the obsolete form of sponger.

Words near spunger in the dictionary

  1. spunbonded
  2. spunbonding
  3. spunbonds
  4. spunge
  5. spunged
  6. spunger
  7. spungers
  8. spunges
  9. spunging
  10. spunging-house
  11. spunging-houses

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Adapted from Wiktionary: spunger (page history and authors); sponger (page history and authors). 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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