scrounge
1915, alteration of dialectal scrunge ("to search stealthily, rummage, pilfer") (1909), of uncertain origin, perhaps from dialectal scringe ("to pry about"); or perhaps related to scrouge, scrooge ("push, jostle") (1755, also Cockney slang for "a crowd"), probably suggestive of screw, squeeze. Pronunciation
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1915, alteration of dialectal scrunge ("to search stealthily, rummage, pilfer") (1909), of uncertain origin, perhaps from dialectal scringe ("to pry about"); or perhaps related to scrouge, scrooge ("push, jostle") (1755, also Cockney slang for "a crowd"), probably suggestive of screw, squeeze. Pronunciation
- IPA: /skɹaʊndʒ/
scrounge (scrounges, present participle scrounging; past and past participle scrounged)
- To hunt about, especially for something of nominal value; to scavenge or glean.
- 1965, Bob Dylan, Like a Rolling Stone
- Now you don't seem so proud about having to be scrounging your next meal.
- 1965, Bob Dylan, Like a Rolling Stone
- To obtain something of moderate or inconsequential value from another.
- As long as he's got someone who'll let him scrounge off them, he'll never settle down and get a full-time job.
- French: quémander, profiter
- German: schnorren
- Italian: scroccare
- Russian: выпра́шивать
- Spanish: gorronear, cafichear, bolsear, comer la sopa boba
scrounge (plural scrounges)
- Someone who scrounges; a scrounger.
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