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Significados de sponger en inglés

portugués
parasita
catalán
paràsit
español
parásito

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

parásito
Uso de sponger en inglés
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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...
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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