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Definition of Sponger

1. Noun. A workman employed to collect sponges.

2. Noun. A follower who hangs around a host (without benefit to the host) in hope of gain or advantage.

Definition of Sponger

1. n. One who sponges, or uses a sponge.

Definition of Sponger

1. Noun. One who uses a sponge. ¹

2. Noun. A parasitic hanger-on. ¹

3. Noun. One employed in gathering sponges from the sea. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Sponger

1. one that sponges [n -S] - See also: sponges

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sponger

sponge off sponge on sponge out sponge roll sponge tent sponge up spongecake spongecakes sponged spongefly

spongeless spongelet spongelets spongelike spongeous sponger (current term) spongers sponges spongeware spongewares

spongey spongia spongier spongiest spongiform spongiform encephalopathy spongilla

Literary usage of Sponger

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Manual of Gunnery Instructions for the Navy of the United States by United States Naval Academy (1864)
"as in exercising one side, except that the left handspike alone is to be used By the Captain of the gun, and that the sponger and Loader at the gun are to ..."

2. A Dictionary of English Synonymes and Synonymous Or Parallel Expressions by Richard Soule (1891)
"sponger, parasite, trencher- fly, trencher-mate. 3. Food, pleasures of the table. Trice, я. Moment, instant, second, jiffy, twinkling, twinkling of an eye ..."

3. A Dictionary of English Synonymes and Synonymous Or Parallel Expressions by Richard Soule, George Holmes Howison (1891)
"sponger, parasite, trencher- fly, trencher-mate. 3. Food, pleasures of the table. Trice, к. Moment, instant, second, jiffy, twinkling, twinkling of an eye. ..."

4. Form of Exercise and Manoeuvre for the Boat-howitzers of the U. S. Navy by John Adolphus Bernard Dahlgren (1852)
"The 1st sponger and 1st Loader step over the breeching, and place themselves by the muzzle on ... The 2d sponger, standing close to and facing from the gun, ..."

5. The Works of Lucian of Samosata: Complete with Exceptions Specified in the by Henry Watson Fowler, Francis George Fowler (1905)
"We are discussing the sponger, not the non-sponger. ... Take that away, and we shall be dealing with something else, and not with a sponger at all. lye. ..."

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