English-Thai Dictionary

scrounge

SL ขอ  kor

 

scrounge

VI ขอยืม (แบบ ไม่ คืน  หยิบ ไป โดย ไม่ คิด จะ คืน หรือ จ่าย เงิน  kor-yuam

 

scrounge

VT ขอยืม (แบบ ไม่ คืน  หยิบ ไป โดย ไม่ คิด จะ คืน หรือ จ่าย เงิน  kor-yuam

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

scrounge

scrounge |skrounj skraʊnʤ | informal ▶verb [ with obj. ] seek to obtain (something, typically food or money ) at the expense or through the generosity of others or by stealth: he had managed to scrounge a free meal | [ no obj. ] : we didn't scrounge off the social security. ▶noun [ in sing. ] an act of seeking to obtain something in such a way. ORIGIN early 20th cent.: variant of dialect scrunge ‘steal. ’

 

scrounger

scroung er |ˈskrounjər ˈskraʊnʤər | ▶noun informal a person who borrows from or lives off others. • a cleverly resourceful person who finds and procures items for a specific purpose: no team at camp had a better scrounger than our Eddie.

 

Oxford Dictionary

scrounge

scrounge |skraʊn (d )ʒ | informal ▶verb [ with obj. ] seek to obtain (something, typically food or money ) at the expense or through the generosity of others or by stealth: he had managed to scrounge a free meal | [ no obj. ] : we didn't scrounge off the social security. • (often scrounge something up ) N. Amer. search for or obtain by searching. ▶noun [ in sing. ] an act of scrounging. PHRASES on the scrounge Brit. engaged in scrounging. ORIGIN early 20th cent.: variant of dialect scrunge ‘steal ’.

 

scrounger

scroun ¦ger ▶noun informal, derogatory a person who borrows from or lives off others.

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

scrounge

scrounge verb they were always scrounging food from the tourists: beg, borrow, cadge; informal sponge, bum, touch someone for, mooch.

 

scrounger

scrounger noun don't give your money to that scrounger: beggar, borrower, parasite, cadger; informal sponger, freeloader, mooch, moocher, bum, bottom feeder, schnorrer.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

scrounge

scrounge verb they were always scrounging food from the tourists: beg, borrow; informal cadge, sponge, bum, touch someone for; Brit. informal scab; Scottish informal sorn on someone for; N. Amer. informal mooch; Austral. /NZ informal bludge.

 

scrounger

scrounger noun the unemployed are often depicted as scroungers: beggar, borrower, parasite, scrounge, cadger; informal sponger, freeloader; Scottish informal sorner; N. Amer. informal mooch, moocher, schnorrer; Austral. /NZ informal bludger.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

scrounge

scrounge /skraʊn (d )ʒ /動詞 ｟くだけて ｠他動詞 1 «…から » 〈金品 〉をせびる, せがむ, 無心する «off , from » .2 …をこっそり盗む, くすねる .自動詞 1 【金品を 】せびる, «…を » ただで要求する «for » .2 «…を » 捜し回る, あさる «for » .名詞 C ねだること (!通例次の句で ) ▸ be on the scrounge (金品を )せびる, せがむ, 無心する .scr ó ung er 名詞 C ｟英 くだけて ｠たかり屋 ; 居候 .