Definitions for scrounges

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scrounges scrounge

Spelling: [skrounj]

IPA: /skraʊndʒ/

Scrounges is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 408 anagrams from letters in scrounges (cegnorssu).

Definitions for scrounges

noun

1. a habitual borrower; sponger.
2. an act or instance of scrounging.
3. a person who exists by foraging.

Verb phrases

1. scrounge around, to search or forage for something, especially in a haphazard or disorganized fashion; hunt for:

verb (used with object)

1. to borrow (a small amount or item) with no intention of repaying or returning it:
2. to gather together by foraging; seek out:

verb (used without object)

1. to borrow, especially a small item one is not expected to return or replace.

Origin of scrounges

First recorded in 1905-10; alteration of dial. scringe to glean

Examples for scrounges

I was able to scrounge up $9,000 and then put in $9,000 of my own, so I was in for $18,000.

“I have been on food stamps and had to scrounge for money,” she says.

One day we missed one of our fellows, a Cockney, for about two hours, and guessed he was on the "scrounge" somewhere or other.

Since Holtsman did not receive much guidance or support, he had to scrounge for supplies and ran his own operations.

"Let's scrounge anything we can find that runs on gasoline or coal oil," said Al Miner.

I was never any good at this so Bruce used to scrounge for us.

When you earn money, cash falls from the sky, meaning you have to scrounge on the floor for dollar bills.

Back from a spell behind Ypres in 1915, a few of us decided to scrounge round for a hair-cut.

While my company was in support one day my corporal and I managed to scrounge into a pill-box away from the awful mud.

I could scrounge me a company job and have a thinking closet all to myself and two secretaries with stainless steel breasts.