Meanings
verb
- gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of scrounge
nounscrounging (plural scroungings)
plural scroungings
- The act of one who scrounges.
What mattered to Vincenzo may have been a temporary lack of money (his wild living led him into frequent scroungings for cash; he was a bit of a spendthrift).
2002, Marie-Anne Lescourret, Rubens: A Portrait, page 160 - in pluralMaterial that has been scrounged.
Most of them were armed but not wealthy, outfitted in battered leather and the scroungings of a half-dozen battlefields.
2010, Liane Merciel, The River Kings' Road, page 110
Translations
Spanish sablazo
- sablazothe act of one who scrounge
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