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Sponger   Listen
noun
Sponger  n.  
1.
One who sponges, or uses a sponge.
2.
One employed in gathering sponges.
3.
Fig.: A parasitical dependent; a hanger-on.





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"Sponger" Quotes from Famous Books



... forty years of age, never dines at home, declares himself no longer dangerous to women, wears a maroon coat, and has a place reserved for him in several boxes at the "Bouffons." He is sometimes confounded with the Parasite; but he has filled too many real functions to be thought a sponger; moreover he possesses a small estate in a certain department, the name of which he has never ...
— Madame Firmiani • Honore de Balzac


Words linked to "Sponger" :   follower, working man, workman, leech, parasite, working person


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