Definitions for sponger

sponger spong·er

Spelling: [spuhn-jer]
IPA: /ˈspʌn dʒər/

Sponger is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 221 anagrams from letters in sponger (egnoprs).

Definitions for sponger

noun

  1. a person or thing that sponges.
  2. a person who habitually borrows or lives at the expense of others; parasite.
  3. a person or boat engaged in gathering sponges.

Origin of sponger

First recorded in 1670-80; sponge + -er1

Examples for sponger

He checked the flood of thanks on the sponger captain's lips.

No. 1, the sponger and rammer, had been killed by a pistol-shot.

And every blackguard and sponger who came along I accepted at his own valuation.

The deck of the sponger was piled with the result of the work of the week.

The Greek sponger 'Zenephone' was passing when she went under.

That word "sponger" as it came to Dan caused him to straighten himself up and step forward more quickly.

Then a sponger fell, and then the gunner himself was slain by the bullet.

At last word came that the sponger had struck on the nearby shoals.

"We'll mow 'em down," said No. 1, the sponger and rammer, a boy of twenty.

Then we walked down to his row-boat, and soon he was aboard the sponger.

Word Value for sponger
Scrable

10

Words with friends

13

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