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Meanings of sponge in English
Cleaning tool made from soft and porous usually synthetic or rarely natural material.
Synonyms
Examples for "grub"
Examples for "grub"
1
The Injun asks me if the cups is in the grub bag.
2
We talked fast and bolted the grub in the half-hour that followed.
3
Figure if I start up a pan of grub, that'll bring him.
4
Pud elected to carry his bag and the portion of the grub.
5
I'll cook the bacon and you unpack the rest of the grub.
1
I remembered something Trapp had told me once about his bridge-bum days.
2
The trim, khaki-garbed enlistment officer rubs elbows with the lodging house bum.
3
Guess the lamp is on the bum, but you hardly need that.
4
The law, missing the right quarry, descends on the slower-moving, harmless bum.
5
I just couldn't resist giving him the bum's rush for a change.
1
And the old man have not make mooch to himself of company.
2
I ver' glad you tink so of Mercedes-itmake me mooch joy.
3
Roy looked him over and said, That's a good fucking mooch.
4
He was a pretty obvious fruit and strictly on the mooch.
5
Den I make mooch fun for de Señor Farnham-sureI do.
1
Coming here to fawn and whine and cadge favours of the umpire!
2
A few were trying to cadge food from people who were carrying snacks.
3
When the yard was finally closed he had to cadge about for work.
4
And now he's going aboard to try and cadge Denby for a drink.
5
But are you sure you don't want to stay here and cadge some caramel apples?
Usage of sponge in English
1
Need a new iOS app to sponge up all your free time?
2
I've given you sponge and sonic baths every day... including this morning.
3
The chloroform sponge had done its miraculous work and was set aside.
4
Here is the sponge; I do not know where the gloves are.
5
Often times it suggested to buy a cleanser just for the sponge.
6
I don't think he's ever done it deliberately; he's just a sponge.
7
Stir in the white flour and let the sponge thus formed rise.
8
The sponge cake was somewhat dry; the sickle pears wanted looking over.
9
Make a rule of white sponge cake; bake in narrow shallow pans.
10
Make the sponge either at bed time, or early in the morning.
11
He squeezed the oil out of the sponge and renewed it again.
12
The Federation of Feminist Health Care Centers calls it the urethral sponge.
13
This constant circulation in the sponge discharges more than one important function.
14
Baxter carried a sponge in one hand, a stool in the other.
15
If I sponge the spots, I spoil the whole thing at once.
16
Wanda had seen wrung-out sponge mops that looked better than Tracy Deloche.
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Sponge through the time
Sponge across language varieties
United States of America
Common
United Kingdom
Common
Ireland
Common