scroungen.

/skraʊndʒ/

Etymology: < scrounge v.¹

colloquial.

1. The action of scrounging; frequently in on the scrounge.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > possession > acquisition > [noun] > by irregular means

sorning1506

nobbling1847

mooching1895

scrounging1919

scrounge1927

the mind > possession > acquisition > [adverb] > scrounging

on the scrounge1927

1927 Daily Express 17 Aug. 3 (heading) Suffolks on the scrounge. Village trek for recruits.

1950 Landfall Mar. 127 I drained my fifth warm bottle-full ages ago and have been on the scrounge ever since.

1956 L. Godfrey in Pick of Today's Short Stories vii. 94 ‘Besides,’ added Trouncer..‘it's a good scrounge.’

1981 ‘J. Gash’ Vatican Rip i. 7 I'm an antique dealer... I was on the scrounge and feeling very sorry for myself.

2. One who scrounges; a scrounger.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > possession > acquisition > [noun] > one who obtains or acquires > by irregular means

motha1387

sorner1449

sucker?a1513

prowler1519

miligant1568

parasite1821

dog robber1832

ear-biter1855

moocher1857

schnorrer1875

toucher1896

scunge1900

scrounger1909

mooch1914

hum1919

hummer1919

hot-stuffer1929

scrounge1937

joyrider1990

1937 E. Partridge Dict. Slang 739/1 Scrounge,..a ‘scrounger’.

1960 H. Wentworth & S. B. Flexner Dict. Amer. Slang 453/2 Scrounge, 1 a habitual borrower;..2 one who asks for small items that others are about to throw away or sell.

1980 Quilt World Sept. 4/1 When you're a scrounge, a consistent scrounge, a garage sale sign is a call to adventure.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online March 2019).

scroungev.¹

/skraʊndʒ/

Forms: Also scrunge.

Etymology: Probably altered < dialectal scringe to pry about (see Eng. Dial. Dict.); the word gained general currency through its widespread use amongst servicemen in the war of 1914–18.

colloquial (originally dialect).

1. intransitive. To sponge on or live at the expense of others. Also with off.

ΚΠ

1909 Webster's New Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang. Scrunge.

1922 Glasgow Herald 1 May 6 I did not see anything in front of me except scrounging on my own people.

1950 G. Greene Third Man ii. 20 I badly need another drink, but I can't keep on scrounging on a stranger. Could you change me a pound..into Austrian money?

1978 R. Westall Devil on Road xiii. 97 I could go and scrounge off the parents for the rest of the vac.

a. intransitive. To seek to obtain by irregular means, as by stealth or begging; to hunt about or rummage (for something).

ΘΚΠ

the mind > possession > acquisition > obtain or acquire [verb (intransitive)] > by irregular means

sornc1575

boba1668

scunge1846

mooch1857

scrounge1909

the world > action or operation > endeavour > searching or seeking > make a search [verb (intransitive)] > poke about or grub

prog1579

rout1711

grub1800

ratch1801

root1831

fossick1853

rootle1854

scrounge1909

roust1919

1909 J. R. Ware Passing Eng. Victorian Era 217/2 Scrunging (Country Boys'), stealing unripe apples and pears—probably from the noise made in masticating.

1915 W. H. L. Watson Adv. Despatch Rider v. 58 George and I..‘scrounged’ for eggs and bread.

1918 G. Goodchild Behind Barrage vi. 94 You may scrounge for rations, kit, pay, or leave. Signallers..usually scrounge for wire. Scrounging for wire is legitimized by the War Office.

1930 J. Brophy & E. Partridge Songs & Slang Brit. Soldier: 1914–1918 160 To scrounge about, to go seeking an opportunity of stealing.

1933 O.E.D. Suppl. at Scrounge Mod. I must scrounge round and see if I can find anything that will do.

1961 ‘E. McBain’ 'Til Death xiii. 153 Facing the world outside the police department, scrounging for a job when I'm no longer a boy.

1973 M. Gordon & G. Gordon Informant xliv. 165 Scrounging around in her case for a freshly laundered slip, she cast curious glances at Chris.

b. transitive. To appropriate; to acquire by irregular means, by stealth, or by begging; to ‘pinch’, to ‘cadge’.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > possession > acquisition > obtain or acquire [verb (transitive)] > obtain or acquire in a certain way > by irregular means

miswinc1400

sorn1563

shirk1635

sponge1676

whizzle1787

mooch1865

honeyfuggle1905

hot-stuff1914

scrounge1917

hum1918

ponce1938

organize1941

bludge1944

1917 A. S. G. Lee Let. 24 Nov. in No Parachute (1968) viii. 172 Now to scrounge the watch from its casing!

1919 War Slang in Athenæum 11 July 582/2 Before the war..‘scrounge’, except in dialect, was unknown.

1919 Athenæum 1 Aug. 695/2 ‘Buckshee’ deserves attention as probably, with ‘scrounge’, the most popular slang towards the end of the war.

1923 G. McKnight Eng. Words 67 British supplies were scrounged.

1923 Chambers's Jrnl. 291/1 He had scrounged some food and got into the hold.

1927 G. W. Deeping Kitty xii Private Dipper went off to try and scrounge some cigarettes.

1928 J. Galsworthy Swan Song ii. iv. 136 ‘How are you going to get the money?’ ‘Win, wangle and scrounge it.’

1939 Star 2 Dec. 4/1 The Southern Railway gave a staggering figure for the specially dimmed bulbs which had been stolen (I beg pardon, scrounged) from their carriages in the first weeks of the war.

1945 Sun (Baltimore) 14 Dec. 6/5 Food, cigarettes, chocolate, clothing, flour and canned meat which the supply team has ‘scrounged’ from excess military stores.

1958 Times Lit. Suppl. 10 Oct. 573/3 The crude overtures of Moondoggie and the other Huck Finn louts who scrounge a lazy summer from any foolish young woman whose parents can provide them with a meal.

1976 National Observer (U.S.) 31 Jan. Some of these [newspapers] I picked up free in the press room; others I scrounged at the lower-lobby newsstand.

Derivatives

scrounge n. the action of scrounging; also, a scrounger.

ΚΠ

1927 Daily Express 17 Aug. 3 (heading) Suffolks on the scrounge. Village trek for recruits.

1950 Landfall Mar. 127 I drained my fifth warm bottle-full ages ago and have been on the scrounge ever since.

1956 L. Godfrey in Pick of Today's Short Stories 94 ‘Besides,’ added Trouncer..‘it's a good scrounge.’

1981 ‘J. Gash’ Vatican Rip i. 7 I'm an antique dealer... I was on the scrounge and feeling very sorry for myself.

scrounged adj.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > possession > acquisition > [adjective] > obtained or acquired > by irregular means

crooked1864

cross1892

kinky1927

hot-stuffed1929

scrounged1941

organized1957

1941 New Statesman 29 Mar. 316/2 ‘Scrounged’ cups, plates, cutlery and even food.

1974 Listener 7 Nov. 593/3 Reading an old, scrounged Daily Mirror.

ˈscrounger n. a person who scrounges.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > possession > acquisition > [noun] > one who obtains or acquires > by irregular means

motha1387

sorner1449

sucker?a1513

prowler1519

miligant1568

parasite1821

dog robber1832

ear-biter1855

moocher1857

schnorrer1875

toucher1896

scunge1900

scrounger1909

mooch1914

hum1919

hummer1919

hot-stuffer1929

scrounge1937

joyrider1990

1909 Webster's New Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang. Scrunger.

1918 E. S. Farrow Dict. Mil. Terms Scrounger, a slang term for a soldier with plenty of resource in getting what he wants.

1923 Blackwood's Mag. Oct. 436/1 The mightiest hunter of the wilds, he becomes a scrounger in backyards.

1968 Science 3 May 522 He was a talented scrounger who in the early stages of the development of the cyclotron was able to find an available 85-ton magnet.

1978 P. Marsh et al. Rules of Disorder ii. 31 You learn to scrounge. Anybody's a good scrounger around here.

ˈscrounging n.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > possession > acquisition > [noun] > by irregular means

sorning1506

nobbling1847

mooching1895

scrounging1919

scrounge1927

1919 tr. A. L. Vischer's Barbed Wire Dis. 44 The complaints about ‘scrounging’, which are nothing but outbreaks of loss of moral judgment.

1927 Blackwood's Mag. Mar. 373/2 By dint of a little scrounging in the kitchen we managed to supply them.

1927 Observer 17 July 15/5 A stirring tale of diamond scrounging.

1946 Sun (Baltimore) 23 Oct. 4/3 There is a blunt reminder that ‘pilfering’ by a native is indistinguishable from ‘scrounging’ by an American soldier, and that ‘chiseling’ and resale of Post Exchange supplies is not an act peculiar to Filipinos.

ˈscrounging adj.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > possession > acquisition > [adjective] > by irregular means

sorning1823

scunging1843

scrounging1956

1956 A. L. Rowse Early Churchills viii. 151 The King, who sank back into the more consoling, if hardly less scrounging, arms of the Duchess of Portsmouth and Nell Gwynn.

1959 Times Lit. Suppl. 26 June 382/4 A curious collection of notes assembled under the title ‘Autolycism’, after Autolycus, an Athenian of scrounging habits.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1982; most recently modified version published online June 2021).

单词	scrounge
释义	scroungen. /skraʊndʒ/ Etymology: < scrounge v.¹ colloquial. 1. The action of scrounging; frequently in on the scrounge. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > acquisition > [noun] > by irregular means sorning1506 nobbling1847 mooching1895 scrounging1919 scrounge1927 the mind > possession > acquisition > [adverb] > scrounging on the scrounge1927 1927 Daily Express 17 Aug. 3 (heading) Suffolks on the scrounge. Village trek for recruits. 1950 Landfall Mar. 127 I drained my fifth warm bottle-full ages ago and have been on the scrounge ever since. 1956 L. Godfrey in Pick of Today's Short Stories vii. 94 ‘Besides,’ added Trouncer..‘it's a good scrounge.’ 1981 ‘J. Gash’ Vatican Rip i. 7 I'm an antique dealer... I was on the scrounge and feeling very sorry for myself. 2. One who scrounges; a scrounger. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > acquisition > [noun] > one who obtains or acquires > by irregular means motha1387 sorner1449 sucker?a1513 prowler1519 miligant1568 parasite1821 dog robber1832 ear-biter1855 moocher1857 schnorrer1875 toucher1896 scunge1900 scrounger1909 mooch1914 hum1919 hummer1919 hot-stuffer1929 scrounge1937 joyrider1990 1937 E. Partridge Dict. Slang 739/1 Scrounge,..a ‘scrounger’. 1960 H. Wentworth & S. B. Flexner Dict. Amer. Slang 453/2 Scrounge, 1 a habitual borrower;..2 one who asks for small items that others are about to throw away or sell. 1980 Quilt World Sept. 4/1 When you're a scrounge, a consistent scrounge, a garage sale sign is a call to adventure. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online March 2019). scroungev.¹ /skraʊndʒ/ Forms: Also scrunge. Etymology: Probably altered < dialectal scringe to pry about (see Eng. Dial. Dict.); the word gained general currency through its widespread use amongst servicemen in the war of 1914–18. colloquial (originally dialect). 1. intransitive. To sponge on or live at the expense of others. Also with off. ΚΠ 1909 Webster's New Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang. Scrunge. 1922 Glasgow Herald 1 May 6 I did not see anything in front of me except scrounging on my own people. 1950 G. Greene Third Man ii. 20 I badly need another drink, but I can't keep on scrounging on a stranger. Could you change me a pound..into Austrian money? 1978 R. Westall Devil on Road xiii. 97 I could go and scrounge off the parents for the rest of the vac. 2. a. intransitive. To seek to obtain by irregular means, as by stealth or begging; to hunt about or rummage (for something). ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > acquisition > obtain or acquire [verb (intransitive)] > by irregular means sornc1575 boba1668 scunge1846 mooch1857 scrounge1909 the world > action or operation > endeavour > searching or seeking > make a search [verb (intransitive)] > poke about or grub prog1579 rout1711 grub1800 ratch1801 root1831 fossick1853 rootle1854 scrounge1909 roust1919 1909 J. R. Ware Passing Eng. Victorian Era 217/2 Scrunging (Country Boys'), stealing unripe apples and pears—probably from the noise made in masticating. 1915 W. H. L. Watson Adv. Despatch Rider v. 58 George and I..‘scrounged’ for eggs and bread. 1918 G. Goodchild Behind Barrage vi. 94 You may scrounge for rations, kit, pay, or leave. Signallers..usually scrounge for wire. Scrounging for wire is legitimized by the War Office. 1930 J. Brophy & E. Partridge Songs & Slang Brit. Soldier: 1914–1918 160 To scrounge about, to go seeking an opportunity of stealing. 1933 O.E.D. Suppl. at Scrounge Mod. I must scrounge round and see if I can find anything that will do. 1961 ‘E. McBain’ 'Til Death xiii. 153 Facing the world outside the police department, scrounging for a job when I'm no longer a boy. 1973 M. Gordon & G. Gordon Informant xliv. 165 Scrounging around in her case for a freshly laundered slip, she cast curious glances at Chris. b. transitive. To appropriate; to acquire by irregular means, by stealth, or by begging; to ‘pinch’, to ‘cadge’. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > acquisition > obtain or acquire [verb (transitive)] > obtain or acquire in a certain way > by irregular means miswinc1400 sorn1563 shirk1635 sponge1676 whizzle1787 mooch1865 honeyfuggle1905 hot-stuff1914 scrounge1917 hum1918 ponce1938 organize1941 bludge1944 1917 A. S. G. Lee Let. 24 Nov. in No Parachute (1968) viii. 172 Now to scrounge the watch from its casing! 1919 War Slang in Athenæum 11 July 582/2 Before the war..‘scrounge’, except in dialect, was unknown. 1919 Athenæum 1 Aug. 695/2 ‘Buckshee’ deserves attention as probably, with ‘scrounge’, the most popular slang towards the end of the war. 1923 G. McKnight Eng. Words 67 British supplies were scrounged. 1923 Chambers's Jrnl. 291/1 He had scrounged some food and got into the hold. 1927 G. W. Deeping Kitty xii Private Dipper went off to try and scrounge some cigarettes. 1928 J. Galsworthy Swan Song ii. iv. 136 ‘How are you going to get the money?’ ‘Win, wangle and scrounge it.’ 1939 Star 2 Dec. 4/1 The Southern Railway gave a staggering figure for the specially dimmed bulbs which had been stolen (I beg pardon, scrounged) from their carriages in the first weeks of the war. 1945 Sun (Baltimore) 14 Dec. 6/5 Food, cigarettes, chocolate, clothing, flour and canned meat which the supply team has ‘scrounged’ from excess military stores. 1958 Times Lit. Suppl. 10 Oct. 573/3 The crude overtures of Moondoggie and the other Huck Finn louts who scrounge a lazy summer from any foolish young woman whose parents can provide them with a meal. 1976 National Observer (U.S.) 31 Jan. Some of these [newspapers] I picked up free in the press room; others I scrounged at the lower-lobby newsstand. Derivatives scrounge n. the action of scrounging; also, a scrounger. ΚΠ 1927 Daily Express 17 Aug. 3 (heading) Suffolks on the scrounge. Village trek for recruits. 1950 Landfall Mar. 127 I drained my fifth warm bottle-full ages ago and have been on the scrounge ever since. 1956 L. Godfrey in Pick of Today's Short Stories 94 ‘Besides,’ added Trouncer..‘it's a good scrounge.’ 1981 ‘J. Gash’ Vatican Rip i. 7 I'm an antique dealer... I was on the scrounge and feeling very sorry for myself. scrounged adj. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > acquisition > [adjective] > obtained or acquired > by irregular means crooked1864 cross1892 kinky1927 hot-stuffed1929 scrounged1941 organized1957 1941 New Statesman 29 Mar. 316/2 ‘Scrounged’ cups, plates, cutlery and even food. 1974 Listener 7 Nov. 593/3 Reading an old, scrounged Daily Mirror. ˈscrounger n. a person who scrounges. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > acquisition > [noun] > one who obtains or acquires > by irregular means motha1387 sorner1449 sucker?a1513 prowler1519 miligant1568 parasite1821 dog robber1832 ear-biter1855 moocher1857 schnorrer1875 toucher1896 scunge1900 scrounger1909 mooch1914 hum1919 hummer1919 hot-stuffer1929 scrounge1937 joyrider1990 1909 Webster's New Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang. Scrunger. 1918 E. S. Farrow Dict. Mil. Terms Scrounger, a slang term for a soldier with plenty of resource in getting what he wants. 1923 Blackwood's Mag. Oct. 436/1 The mightiest hunter of the wilds, he becomes a scrounger in backyards. 1968 Science 3 May 522 He was a talented scrounger who in the early stages of the development of the cyclotron was able to find an available 85-ton magnet. 1978 P. Marsh et al. Rules of Disorder ii. 31 You learn to scrounge. Anybody's a good scrounger around here. ˈscrounging n. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > acquisition > [noun] > by irregular means sorning1506 nobbling1847 mooching1895 scrounging1919 scrounge1927 1919 tr. A. L. Vischer's Barbed Wire Dis. 44 The complaints about ‘scrounging’, which are nothing but outbreaks of loss of moral judgment. 1927 Blackwood's Mag. Mar. 373/2 By dint of a little scrounging in the kitchen we managed to supply them. 1927 Observer 17 July 15/5 A stirring tale of diamond scrounging. 1946 Sun (Baltimore) 23 Oct. 4/3 There is a blunt reminder that ‘pilfering’ by a native is indistinguishable from ‘scrounging’ by an American soldier, and that ‘chiseling’ and resale of Post Exchange supplies is not an act peculiar to Filipinos. ˈscrounging adj. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > acquisition > [adjective] > by irregular means sorning1823 scunging1843 scrounging1956 1956 A. L. Rowse Early Churchills viii. 151 The King, who sank back into the more consoling, if hardly less scrounging, arms of the Duchess of Portsmouth and Nell Gwynn. 1959 Times Lit. Suppl. 26 June 382/4 A curious collection of notes assembled under the title ‘Autolycism’, after Autolycus, an Athenian of scrounging habits. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1982; most recently modified version published online June 2021). scroungev.² /skraʊndʒ/ Etymology: Compare scrouge v., but perhaps related to dialectal scringe , scrunge to rub with force ( Eng. Dial. Dict.: see scrounge v.¹). U.S. colloquial. transitive. To move with a rubbing or squeezing action. ΚΠ 1939 J. Steinbeck Grapes of Wrath x. 123 Ma chuckled lightly and scrounged the clothes in and out of the bucket. 1954 J. Steinbeck Sweet Thursday xxii. 139 You keep an old lemon rind, and every time you wash your hands you scrounge your fingernails around in it. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1982; most recently modified version published online June 2021). < n.1927v.¹1909v.²1939
随便看	to pinch down to pinch in to pinch off to pinch on the parson'priest's side to pinch on the parson's side to pinch out to pinch pennies to pinch someone on the parson's side to pinch up to pink 'em to pink a person's doublet to pink a person's jacket to pink doublet to pink jacket to pinon, upon, or to one's sleeve to pip at the post to pip on the post to pipe away to pipe down to pipe down the hammocks to pipe in to pipe in an ivy-leaf to pipe in an ivyleaf to pipe in with an ivy-leaf to pipe in with an ivyleaf

scroungen.

scroungev.1

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