English language

How to pronounce scrounger in English?

Toggle Transcript
Type Words
Synonyms cadger, mooch, moocher
Type of beggar, mendicant
Has types schnorrer, shnorrer
Derivation scrounge

Examples of scrounger

scrounger
The image of IDS as archetypal welfare scrounger is simply too painful to bear.
From the independent.co.uk
As for those who think anyone unemployed is a scrounger, please bear this in mind.
From the guardian.co.uk
How do you come to the conclusion of discribing this man as a scrounger.
From the express.co.uk
He will be an honest scrounger of federal money, but still a scrounger.
From the economist.com
Because everyone who takes time off sick is a layabout scrounger, and on the fiddle, right?
From the independent.co.uk
All of which counts for nothing because so long as you are out of work, you are a scrounger.
From the guardian.co.uk
Incidentally, the queen IS a benefits scrounger, and that is NO joke.
From the guardian.co.uk
So they get rich and everyone gets to tell me I'm a scrounger.
From the guardian.co.uk
You're either a benefits scrounger or you're a man-hating career woman who neglects her children.
From the morningstaronline.co.uk
More examples
  • Moocher: someone who mooches or cadges (tries to get something free)
  • One who scrounges
  • From an Old English word meaning "wander about idly," a scrounger is one who gets only what he needs, and only when he needs it, by foraging, scavenging, or cadging. ...