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scrounged
English
Verb
scrounged
- simple past tense and past participle of scrounge
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scrounge
English
Etymology
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. Popularized by the military in World War I.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sk?a?nd?/
- Rhymes: -a?nd?
Verb
scrounge (third-person singular simple present scrounges, present participle scrounging, simple 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.
Synonyms
- (obtain from another): blag, cadge (UK), leech, sponge, wheedle
Derived terms
- scrounger
Translations
Noun
scrounge (plural scrounges)
- Someone who scrounges; a scrounger.
Translations
See also
- scringe
- scrooge
- scrouge
- scrunge
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