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A scrounger is a person who gets money, food, or other things by asking people for them, rather than paying or earning them. The verb is scrounge: to ask around, to borrow, to take what is going. Among friends, "He's a scrounger" can sound almost light — the person who never buys a round, who always "forgets" a wallet. In British newspapers, though actually, scrounger is often a hard insult, used for people the paper wants you to see as living off others or off the state. That use is political and . The word is informal either way. It is about getting things from people, not about hating to spend.
愛白吃白拿、愛佔便宜的人(英式口語,帶貶義)
組成From scrounge (to get something by asking, not paying) + -er (a person who does that).
同家族的字
- scroungethe verb for what this person does
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
scroungernoun
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One who scrounges.
- You get out of me kitchen, you low-down scrounger! I ain't going to have you in here, giving me cheek to me face and drinkin' beer I got to pay for.
- For a mad two hours, artists, critics, hangers-on, insiders, befuddled outsiders and outright scroungers mingle, collide, preen, dish, fawn, toady, snub and, as a last resort, take a fleeting glance at the art on the wall.
資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。