Definitions for spongers

spongers spong·er

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

Spongers is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 266 anagrams from letters in spongers (egnoprss).

Definitions for spongers

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 spongers

First recorded in 1670-80; sponge + -er1

Examples for spongers

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Word Value for spongers
Scrable

10

Words with friends

13

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