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Significados de sponger en inglés

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A follower who hangs around a host (without benefit to the host) in hope of gain or advantage.

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        Uso de sponger en inglés
        1
        I firmly believe in the European vision, but I reject sponger membership.
        The Irish Times
        2
        The rammer and sponger lay by the side of the small field-piece.
        The Junior Classics, Volume 8: Animal and Nature Stories
        3
        You will become a dependent in this house, a hanger-on, a sponger.
        Love, the Fiddler
        4
        He was not a sponger, but a man working for his breakfast.
        The Fourth Watch
        5
        Instead of consulting people of experience-ps ,ps ,ps-firstsponger that comes along.
        The Nabob
        6
        It was mean, and yet what was he himself but a sponger?
        The Fourth Watch
        7
        He felt he was no longer a sponger, a useless being.
        The Fourth Watch
        8
        Horse Chasseur acting as a communist artillery man, attended by a gamin sponger.
        Paris under the Commune / The Seventy-Three Days of the Second S...
        9
        To get, and give nothing in return; to be a sucker and a sponger.
        The Fourth Watch
        10
        Banqueter was the word used for sponger in his day; what does he say?
        The Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 03
        11
        Then a sponger fell, and then the gunner himself was slain by the bullet.
        The Texan Star: The Story of a Great Fight for Liberty
        12
        Then we walked down to his row-boat, and soon he was aboard the sponger.
        Pieces of Eight / Being the Authentic Narrative of a Treasure Di...
        13
        I'm going to leave you here-andI'm going to charter the sponger out there.
        Pieces of Eight / Being the Authentic Narrative of a Treasure Di...
        14
        The wise Homer, admiring the sponger's life as the only blissful enviable one, has this:
        The Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 03
        15
        I hate a sponger, and so did my father.
        The Fourth Watch
        16
        But what sort of a guess do you make at the sponger's behaviour in war?
        The Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 03
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        Translations for sponger
        Sponger a través del tiempo