Reverse Dictionary: SPONGE

ADJECTIVES
1601 ► SKELDERING begging, sponging, swindling → cant obs. exc. arch.
1864 ► ON THE MOOCH engaged in begging or sponging; looking for opportunities to get small sums of money, handouts, etc. → Amer. sl., orig. criminals’ usage

NOUNS
19C.. ► HOBKNOLLING saving one’s own expenses by living with others on slight pretenses; sponging on the good nature of one’s friends → Eng. dial. obs.
1887 ► GADGE begging, sponging → Sc.

NOUNS, PERSON
– BAYSWATER CAPTAIN a sponger, one having no ostensible means of living …1880 sl.
– BEAT an idle, worthless, or shiftless fellow; a loafer; a layabout; a sponger; a shirker or malingerer …1865 US
– BELLY-FRIEND one who pretends friendship for his own interest; an insincere friend; a parasite, a sponger …?1589 obs.
– BILK a person who habitually sponges on another; one who never by any chance makes a return or even offers to return a courtesy, drink, or the like …1867 sl.
– BLAGGER a sponger …2001 sl.
– CAD one who would rather live on other people than work for himself; a man trying to worm something out of another, either money or information …Bk1860 sl.
– CADGER one who lives by sponging on another; a genteel despicable sponger …c1830 sl.
– DEADBEAT a cadger or sponger; a penniless scrounger; a loafer; a worthless idler; one who will not or cannot pay debts …1871 Amer. sl.
– EASY RIDER a parasitical man, usually without a steady job, who lives by gambling or sponging; a man who is supported by a woman, a esp. a prostitute …1914 African-American sl.
– GADGER a sponger …1887 Sc.
– GENIAL an ingratiating, if untrustworthy and sponging person …1893 US sl.
– GLEANER a sponger …1926 US sl.
– LEANER a freeloader …1960s Amer. sl.
– LIGGER someone who gatecrashes parties; a freeloader …1977 Brit. sl.
– LUG an unpleasant or despicable person, usually male; a lout, a sponger …1931 sl., chiefly Amer.
– LUGGER a sponger; a defaulter; one who drinks with others but never buys a round …20C Brit. sl.
– MOMZER an unpleasant or despicable person, usually male; a rascal; a detestable or disliked person …1955 US sl. 
– MONGREL a sponger; a hanger-on among cheats …c1720 cant
– MOOCH a beggar; a scrounger; a sponger; a borrower, a cadger; an idler …1914 sl., chiefly US
– MOOCHER an unskilled beggar or petty thief; hence, a sponger …1857 sl.
– QUAISTERIN a person who lives on his friends, a sponger …1880 Sc. obs.
– SCAFFER a parasite, a sponger; an extortioner …1500-20 Sc. obs.
– SCAMBLER;  SCAMLER one who intrudes on the table or generosity of another; a parasite, a sponger; a meal-time visitor …1500-20 Sc.
– SCUNGE a scrounger or sponger …1900 colloq., orig. Sc.
– SHERK;  SHIRK a sponger, a parasite …M17 sl.
– SKEMLER a parasite, a sponger, one who scrounges his meals from others …1721 Sc. obs.
– SNUDGE a mean, avaricious person; a niggard, a miser, a stingy person; an intrusive, sponging fellow …1545 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
– SUCKER one who lives at the expense of another; one who draws profit or extorts subsistence from some source; a sponger a parasite …1500-20
– THRUTCH-UP a sponger …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– TIGER a sponger, a hanger-on, a parasite; rake, a swell-mobsman …1849 sl. obs.
– URGER any parasite or loafer who incurs no risk himself; a sponger, an idler …1952 Aust. sl.
– WALK AND NYAM a poor White; thus a sponger of any race …1816 W. Indies sl. 

VERBS
– BEAT ONE’S WAY to get along by sponging, cheating, or swindling …1873 Amer. sl.
– BOARD OUT to sleep and eat at someone’s else expense …1928 Amer. dial.
– BOT to cadge or sponge money …1921 Aust. sl.
– BUM to go ‘on the bum’; to act as a ‘bum’; to sponge …1889 US colloq.
– CANIFFLE to embezzle; to sponge …1873 Eng. dial.
– COME THE BLUDGE ON to sponge upon someone …1958 Aust. sl.
– DEADBEAT to loaf, to sponge, to malinger; to avoid doing a thing; to defraud …1881 US sl.
– DEADHEAD to obtain goods, services, transportation, admission, etc. without paying; to sponge; to allow someone to do the same …1855 Amer. dial.
– DICK SMITH IT to drink alone; to sponge on others …1979 Amer. dial.
– GADGE to beg, to sponge …1887 Sc.
– HUM to cadge or sponge money …1913 Aust. sl.
– LIG to freeload, esp. by gatecrashing …1981 Brit. sl.
– POLE ON to cadge or sponge money …1906 Aust. sl.
– SCAFF to provide food; to devise means for obtaining food; to sponge; to collect by dishonourable means …Bk1904 Sc.
– SCOFF to filch, to steal, to plunder, to sponge …1885 Sc.
– SCREWZE to encroach, to intrude; to sponge; to come as an uninvited, unwelcome guest …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
– SHARK ON to prey like a sharp upon; to victimize, to sponge upon, to swindle; to oppress by extortion …a1596 obs.
– SLAPSAUCE to sponge …B1900 sl.
– SUCK to sponge upon …Bk1904 sl.