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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (2)

1. a workman employed to collect sponges;

2. a follower who hangs around a host (without benefit to the host) in hope of gain or advantage;
[syn: leech, parasite, sponge, sponger]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Sponger \Spon"ger\ (-j[~e]r), n. 1. One who sponges, or uses a sponge. [1913 Webster] 2. One employed in gathering sponges. [1913 Webster] 3. Fig.: A parasitical dependent; a hanger-on. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

sponger n 1: a workman employed to collect sponges 2: a follower who hangs around a host (without benefit to the host) in hope of gain or advantage [syn: leech, parasite, sponge, sponger]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

28 Moby Thesaurus words for "sponger": barnacle, beat, beggar, bloodsucker, bummer, cadger, coupon clippers, deadbeat, drone, freeloader, hanger-on, idle rich, leech, leisure class, lounge lizard, lumpen proletariat, mendicant, moocher, nonworker, panhandler, parasite, rentiers, smell-feast, spiv, sponge, sucker, the unemployable, the unemployed