scrounger

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English

Etymology

From scrounge +‎ -er.

Noun

scrounger (plural scroungers)

  1. One who scrounges.
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:scrounger
    • 1950, Norman Lindsay, Dust or Polish?, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 151:
      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.
    • 1995 February 10, William Grimes, “When Art Puts on a Party Hat: A Guide to Gallery Openings”, in The New York Times‎:
      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.
    • 1993, The Bulletin - Volume 115, page 87:
      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.
    • 2003, G Holcomb, No Quarter Asked No Quarter Given, →ISBN, page 80:
      Harbert was our dog robber (scrounger), had been since he joined the outfit in Guadalcanal.

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