sponger's Usage Examples:

(שנאָרער; also spelled shnorrer) is a Yiddish term meaning "beggar" or "sponger".

In French, pique assiette ('plate thief') is a term for a scrounger or sponger, and thus as a name for this mosaic technique, it refers to the recycled.

CSS Tennessee at close range and Cassidy distinguished himself as the sponger on a gun crew.

named in 1918 by Arthur Oliver Wheeler after Eugene Francis O'Beirne, a "sponger and general pest" who in 1864 had attached himself to William Wentworth-FitzWilliam.

Comic relief is provided by a sponger, Ergasilus, looking for a free dinner from Hegio.

awarded his Medal of Honor for gallantry under fire while serving as the sponger of the ship's Number 1 gun.

but Sky Movies wrote, "Terence Morgan makes the best impression, as a sponger as smooth as he is nasty, in this ballet-orientated story, tailored to.

The last man, 'Rave' Ravenscourt (Laurence Harvey), is a 'gentleman' sponger and a scoundrel with gambling debts and the unscrupulous leader who lures.

" Michel Simon called Boudu a pique-assiette, a sponger, while the writer Richard Boston rejected the idea that Boudu had much.

Acting as the first sponger of the pivot gun during this bitter engagement, Read exhibited marked coolness.

Acting as sponger and loader of the 11-inch pivot gun during the bitter engagement, Harrison.

Following a shellburst which mortally wounded the first sponger, who dropped the sponge out of the forecastle port, Molloy jumped out of.

Synonyms:

sponge; follower; parasite; leech;

Antonyms:

employer; spread; superior; host; leader;