SCROUNGER Synonyms

• someone who mooches or cadges (tries to get something free)

• a pauper who lives by begging

• be beyond the resources of

• reduce to beggary

• someone who takes advantage of the generosity of others

• someone who persistently (and annoyingly) follows along

• person who does no work

• carnivorous or bloodsucking aquatic or terrestrial worms typically having a sucker at each end

• a follower who hangs around a host (without benefit to the host) in hope of gain or advantage

• draw blood

• a low leather step-in shoe; the top resembles a moccasin but it has a broad flat heel

• person who does no work

• an animal or plant that lives in or on a host (another animal or plant); it obtains nourishment from the host without benefiting or killing the host

• a follower who hangs around a host (without benefit to the host) in hope of gain or advantage

• (baseball) a ballplayer who is batting

• a boxer noted for an ability to deliver hard punches

• a porous mass of interlacing fibers that forms the internal skeleton of various marine animals and usable to absorb water or any porous rubber or cellulose product similarly used

• someone able to acquire new knowledge and skills rapidly and easily

• a follower who hangs around a host (without benefit to the host) in hope of gain or advantage

• primitive multicellular marine animal whose porous body is supported by a fibrous skeletal framework; usually occurs in sessile colonies

• wipe with a sponge, so as to clean or moisten

• ask for and get free; be a parasite

• erase with a sponge; as of words on a blackboard

• soak up with a sponge

• gather sponges, in the ocean

• a workman employed to collect sponges

• a follower who hangs around a host (without benefit to the host) in hope of gain or advantage

• someone who mooches or cadges (tries to get something free)

• ask for and get free; be a parasite