SPONGE Synonyms

• 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 takes advantage of the generosity of others

• a light porous cake made with eggs and flour and sugar without shortening

• ask for and get free; be a parasite

• obtain or seek to obtain by cadging or wheedling

• informal terms for a meal

• a soft thick wormlike larva of certain beetles and other insects

• ask for and get free; be a parasite

• search about busily

• 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

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

• ask for and get free; be a parasite

• 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

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

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