Reverse Dictionary: SCROUNGE

ADJECTIVES OR ADVERBS
► CHERCHED scrounged, obtained →  World War I Amer. sl.
► ON THE BOW free; scrounging → 1938 UK sl.
► ON THE CADGE on the tramp, begging, scrounging → 1898 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► ON THE COAT AND BADGE on the cadge, scrounging → 1960 UK rhyming sl.
► ON THE EARHOLE on the scrounge → 1998 UK sl.
► ON THE EASTER EGG begging, scrounging → 1988 Sc. sl.

NOUNS
► BUMMERISM action or behaviour characteristic of a vagrant or loafer; idleness, scrounging; also, corruption on the part of politicians and public officials → 1858 US., obs., depreciative
► BUMMERY action or behaviour characteristic of a vagrant or loafer; idleness, scrounging → 1887 US., obs., depreciative
► MUMPING a scrounging, soliciting favours, begging → 17C Brit. sl.

NOUNS – PERSON
► BLAGGER a person who seeks to obtain or achieve something by persuasive talk or plausible deception; a bluffer, a scrounger, a cadger; a smooth talker, a persuasive person → 1963 Brit. sl.
► BLUDGER a cadger, a scrounger; a disreputable or despicable person → 1980s Aust. sl. 
► BOT a habitual borrower or cadger; a scrounger; a person who frequently imposes on others → 1916 Aust. & NZ sl.
► BOTFLY a scrounger → 1999 Aust. sl. (Bk.)
► BUMMER a person who bums,  scrounges, begs for, or cadges something, usually cigarettes or drinks → 1948
► CADGER a beggar, a tramp, a scrounger, a loafer, a petty thief → 1737 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► DEADBEAT a cadger or sponger; a penniless scrounger; a loafer; a worthless idler; one who will not or cannot pay debts → 1871 Amer. sl.
► EAR-LUGGER a cadger, a scrounger → 20C Aust. sl.
► HUMMER a scrounger, a cadger → 1919 Aust. colloq.
► MIKER a loafer, a scrounger → L19 sl.
► MOOCH a beggar; a scrounger; a sponger; a borrower, a cadger; an idler → 1914 sl., chiefly US
► MOOCHIE a beggar; a scrounger; a sponger; an idler → 1983 US sl.
► MOUCHER a beggar; a scrounger → 1857
► MUMP a beggar, a scrounger → E18 sl.
► MUMPER a genteel beggar, a scrounger → 1674 UK criminals’ sl.
► SCADGE a mean, scrounging person; one who curries favour → 1896 Sc.
► SCAMBLER a parasite, a sponger, one who scrounges his meals from others → 1721 Sc. obs.
► SCUNGE a scrounger or sponger → 1900 colloq., orig. Sc.
► WALLFLOWER one who idles into a saloon hoping to be offered a free drink; a scrounger → 1918 US Army sl. obs.

PHRASES
► ON THE EARHOLE ► ON THE EAR’OLE on the scrounge → 1998 UK sl.
► ON THE EASTER EGG begging, scrounging → 1988 Sc. rhyming sl. for ‘on the beg’

VERBS
► BLAG to scrounge, to cadge, to deceive, to bamboozle → 1950s Brit. sl. 
► BLUDGE to shirk responsibility or hard work; to impose on; to cadge or scrounge → 1919 sl.
► CADGE orig. to wander the country as a beggar; thence to beg or go about begging; to wheedle something from someone; to scrounge money, etc. → L18 sl.
► FAUCH to scrounge → 1916 Sc.
► HOT-STUFF to steal or scrounge → 1914 services’ sl.
► NEEDLE to scrounge → L19 Irish sl.
► PONCE to scrounge, to sponge; to live on or off money earned by another person, esp. a woman → 1932 sl., derogatory
► PONCE OFF ► PONCE ON to cadge or scrounge money → 1937 sl.
► PURL to cadge, to scrounge, to seek for gain or advantage in a mean, grasping, or underhand way → 1530 obs.
► PUT ON THE ACID to scrounge, to cadge → 1999 Aust.  (Bk.)
► PUT THE BUM ON to beg or scrounge from → 1935 US sl.
► RABBIT to steal; to borrow or scrounge something→ c1920 sl.
► SCAFF to scrounge, to go about looking for food or anything else that may be picked up → 1827 Sc.
► SCAV to scavenge; to scrounge → 2001 UK sl.
► SCUNGE to scrounge, to sponge → 1846 colloq., orig. Sc.