different between Sponge vs boozer

English

Etymology

From Old English spunge, taken from Latin spongia, from Ancient Greek ??????? (spongiá), related to ??????? (spóngos).

Pronunciation

• enPR: sp?nj, IPA^(key): /sp?nd??/
• Rhymes: -?nd?

Noun

sponge (countable and uncountable, plural sponges)

1. (countable) Any of various marine invertebrates, mostly of the phylum Porifera, that have a porous skeleton often of silica.

   Synonyms: sea sponge, bath sponge, poriferan, porifer

2. (countable) A piece of porous material used for washing (originally made from the invertebrates, now often made of plastic).

   Synonym: bath sponge
3. (uncountable) A porous material such as sponges consist of.
4. (informal) A heavy drinker.

   Synonyms: souse, swill-pot; see also Thesaurus:drunkard

5. (countable, uncountable) A type of light cake.

   Synonym: sponge cake

6. (countable, uncountable, Britain) A type of steamed pudding.

   Synonym: sponge pudding

7. (slang) A person who takes advantage of the generosity of others (abstractly imagined to absorb or soak up the money or efforts of others like a sponge).

   Synonyms: freeloader, sponger; see also Thesaurus:scrounger

8. (countable) A form of contraception that is inserted vaginally; a contraceptive sponge.
9. Any sponge-like substance.
   1. (baking) Dough before it is kneaded and formed into loaves, and after it is converted into a light, spongy mass by the agency of the yeast or leaven.
   2. Iron from the puddling furnace, in a pasty condition.
   3. Iron ore, in masses, reduced but not melted or worked.
10. A mop for cleaning the bore of a cannon after a discharge. It consists of a cylinder of wood, covered with sheepskin with the wool on, or cloth with a heavy looped nap, and having a handle, or staff.
11. The extremity, or point, of a horseshoe, corresponding to the heel.
12. (slang) A nuclear power plant worker routinely exposed to radiation.

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? Hindi: ????? (spañj)
• ? Japanese: ???? (suponji)
• ? Korean: ??? (seupeonji)
• ? Pashto: ????? (spanj)
• ? Welsh: spynj

Translations

See also

• foam

Verb

sponge (third-person singular simple present sponges, present participle sponging, simple past and past participle sponged)

1. (intransitive, slang) To take advantage of the kindness of others.

2. (transitive, intransitive with on or upon) To get by imposition; to scrounge.

   Synonym: blag

   • July 17 1735, Jonathan Swift, letter to Lord Ornery

     I am an utter stranger to the persons and places, except when half a score come to sponge on me every Sunday evening

3. (transitive) To deprive (somebody) of something by imposition.

   • How came such multitudes of our nation […] to be sponged of their plate and their money?

4. To clean, soak up, or dab with a sponge.
5. To suck in, or imbibe, like a sponge.
6. To wipe out with a sponge, as letters or writing; to efface; to destroy all trace of.
   • 1594, Richard Hooker, Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie

     Lett the eyes which have looked on Idols, sponge out their unlawfull acts

7. (intransitive, baking) To be converted, as dough, into a light, spongy mass by the agency of yeast or leaven.
8. (marine biology, of dolphins) To use a piece of wild sponge as a tool when foraging for food.

Translations

Further reading

• sponge on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• pengos, peng?s

English

Etymology

From booze +? -er.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?bu?.z?(?)/
• Rhymes: -u?z?(r)

Noun

boozer (plural boozers)

1. (colloquial) One who drinks habitually; a drunkard.
   • 1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D'Urbervilles, A Pure Woman, Faithfully Presented, 1963, page 25,

     “Tess is a fine figure o? fun, as I said to myself today when I zeed her vamping round parish with the rest,” observed one of the elderly boozers in an undertone.

   • 1918, Charles Stelzle, Why Prohibition!, 2008, page 49,

     But they have only one insurance rate for ordinary men — drinkers and non-drinkers, and they compel the man who doesn?t booze to make up for the extra amount that the boozer should pay.

   • 2009 November, Neville Franks, The Lost Boy of the Ozarks, Backpacker, page 82,

     Every swig made me more relaxed, and happy, and I was definitely a boozer again, and I wondered why I had ever thought I wasn't a boozer and I took another pull and I was going to clap BC on the back and thank him for being such a good hotel manager, and faithful guide, for being my friend, and then I passed out.

2. (Britain, Australia, New Zealand, slang) A public house, pub.

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3. (Britain, military, obsolete) A World War II fighter radar detector, fitted to British bombers.
4. (Africa) A vehicle equipped with tanks for supplying water to remote locations.
   • 2010 June 8, Kenya National Assembly Official Record (Hansard), page 2,

     Mr. Mututho: Mr. Speaker, Sir, the Assistant Minister should assure the people of Vihiga that they will get a water boozer because the sick people are not party to this complication. Could he assure the people that he can send a boozer in his capacity even if he cannot supply power or a standby generator, so that they can have a small well?

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:boozer.

Synonyms

• (drunkard): See Thesaurus:drunkard
• (public house): See Thesaurus:pub
• (radar detector):
• (water-supply vehicle): bowser, tanker

Translations

See also

• booze

Anagrams

• rebozo