Meanings of scrounger in English

The need for an enemy; bourgeoisie or proletariat, fat cat or scrounger.

The codgers eyed him warily; he looked disreputable enough to be a slave-merchant's scrounger.

Or some scrounger too lazy to hunt real prey.

He's our best scrounger.

Desperately we got up to look round for some shelter, and George, our champion "scrounger," discovered a chicken-house.

And the smattering of chilled philosophy: The shoestring traveller... is not a scrounger, a penniless layabout permanently high or a rip-off merchant.

Not merely did they face being pitched into deep poverty overnight but they would endure the stigma of being labelled a "scrounger".

Nowadays, some people believe the myths spread by certain MPs, she explains -"that every single disabled or poor person is a scrounger".

The scroungers had carried him off somewhere, no doubt fearing our return.

They would also, I realized, give warning if any scroungers moved in.

And he attacks the idea that people on benefits are scroungers.

Scrounger- amanwith plenty of resource in getting what he wants.

And that he will make welfare scroungers bear the brunt again.

If the scroungers can't have our horse, they'd just as soon have a pup.

She guessed that even the scroungers had fled once they saw the boy collapse.

It is politically expedient to tackle this area; it fits the scroungers and skivers agenda.