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Scrounge   /skraʊndʒ/   Listen
Scrounge

verb
1.
Collect or look around for (food).  Synonym: forage.
2.
Obtain or seek to obtain by cadging or wheedling.  Synonyms: cadge, schnorr, shnorr.



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"Scrounge" Quotes from Famous Books



... started for reading and indoor games, whilst Lieut. Pennington got an extraordinarily good Concert Party going, which was known eventually as "The Penguins" and gave entertainments to several other units. "Robbo" managed to "scrounge" a piano for them from a ruined house in the town, and during the dark nights we had much to thank them for. Later on there were whist drives, and some of the gayer element even went to dances, classes in which gentle art were held by the 6th Battalion. Padre ...
— The Sherwood Foresters in the Great War 1914 - 1919 - History of the 1/8th Battalion • W.C.C. Weetman



Words linked to "Scrounge" :   hunt down, cadge, track down, schnorr, forage, rustle, hunt, run, beg, shnorr



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