- sponger spong·er n
- ['spʌndʒə(r)]
fam scroccone (-a), pej parassita m inv
English-Italian dictionary. 2013.
sponger spong·er n
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sponger — spong|er [ spʌndʒər ] noun count INFORMAL someone who asks for money and other things from friends or relatives and makes no effort to give anything back. This word shows that you do not like this behavior … Usage of the words and phrases in modern English
sponger — spong·er … English syllables
spong·er — /ˈspʌnʤɚ/ noun, pl ers [count] informal + disapproving : someone who gets money, food, etc., from someone else without doing or paying anything in return Her brother s a lazy sponger … Useful english dictionary
sponge — [[t]spʌndʒ[/t]] n. v. sponged, spong•ing 1) ivt any porous, aquatic, sessile animal of the phylum Porifera, having a fibrous siliceous or calcareous internal skeleton and lacking tissue organization 2) the skeleton of certain sponges, readily… … From formal English to slang
