scrounger
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.93 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
1
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
One who scrounges.
Example Sentences
- "You get out of me kitchen, you low-down scrounger! I ain't going to have you in here, giving me cheek to me face and drinkin' beer I got to pay for."
- "For a mad two hours, artists, critics, hangers-on, insiders, befuddled outsiders and outright scroungers mingle, collide, preen, dish, fawn, toady, snub and, as a last resort, take a fleeting glance at the art on the wall."
- "Elwood seems at first a typical army scrounger and lurkman with his latest model Mercedes and every creature comfort but he is a ruthless and greedy drug pedlar."
- "Harbert was our dog robber (scrounger), had been since he joined the outfit in Guadalcanal."
Etymology
From scrounge + -er.