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Scrounge

//skɹaʊnd͡ʒ// noun, verb

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Someone who scrounges; a scrounger.
  2. 2
    An act of scrounging; a trip taken for the purpose of scrounging.

    ""Still, it's not much good sending you two off on a medical supplies scrounge. What about food and general stores? Suit you?""

Verb
  1. 1
    To hunt about, especially for something of nominal value; to scavenge or glean. ambitransitive

    "scrounge for food"

  2. 2
    collect or look around for (food) wordnet
  3. 3
    To obtain something of moderate or inconsequential value from another. intransitive

    "As long as he's got someone who'll let him scrounge off them, he'll never settle down and get a full-time job."

  4. 4
    obtain or seek to obtain by cadging or wheedling wordnet

Etymology

Etymology 1

1915, alteration of dialectal scrunge ("to search stealthily, rummage, pilfer") (1909), of uncertain origin, perhaps from dialectal scringe ("to pry about"); or perhaps related to scrouge, scrooge ("push, jostle") (1755, also Cockney slang for "a crowd"), probably suggestive of screw, squeeze. Popularized by the military in World War I.

Etymology 2

1915, alteration of dialectal scrunge ("to search stealthily, rummage, pilfer") (1909), of uncertain origin, perhaps from dialectal scringe ("to pry about"); or perhaps related to scrouge, scrooge ("push, jostle") (1755, also Cockney slang for "a crowd"), probably suggestive of screw, squeeze. Popularized by the military in World War I.

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