sponge
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noun- 1.
(countable)Any of various marine invertebrates of the phylum Porifera, that have a porous skeleton often of silica.
Đồng nghĩa: sea sponge, bath sponge, poriferan, porifer
- 2.
(countable)A piece of porous material used for washing (originally made from the invertebrates, now often made of plastic).
Đồng nghĩa: bath sponge
- 3.
(uncountable)The porous material that synthetic washing sponges are made of.
- 4.
(countable, informal, uncountable)A heavy drinker.
Đồng nghĩa: souse, swill-pot, alco, alcoholic, alkie, bacchanal, bacchant, barfly, bibber, booze artist, boozehound, boozer, borachio, bouser, carouser, cupster, dipso, dipsomaniac, drinker, drunk, drunkard, fuddlecap, fuddler, grog artist, guzzler, inebriate, juicehead, lick-wimble, lush, lusher, maltworm, pisshead, pisspot, plonko, reel-pot, rinse-pitcher, rumpot, shicker, slubberdegullion, soak, soaker, sot, souse, sponge, squeeze-grape, sucker, suck-pint, swill-belly, swill-bowl, swill-flagon, swill-pot, swill-tub, swillking, tippler, toper, tosspot, tun, winebibber, winesop, wino
- 5.
(countable, uncountable)A type of light cake.
Đồng nghĩa: sponge cake
- 6.
(British, countable, uncountable)A type of steamed pudding.
Đồng nghĩa: sponge pudding
- 7.
(countable, slang, uncountable)A person who takes advantage of the generosity of others (abstractly imagined to absorb or soak up the money or efforts of others like a sponge).
Đồng nghĩa: freeloader, sponger, bloodsucker, bludger, bummer, freeloader, free rider, gadfly, leech, mooch, moocher, parasite, scrounge, scrounger, scunge, smell-feast, sponge, sponger, sucker, trencher mate
- 8.
(countable, uncountable)A person who readily absorbs ideas.
- 9.
(countable)A form of contraception that is inserted vaginally; a contraceptive sponge.
- 10.
Any sponge-like substance.
- 11.
(countable, uncountable)A mop for cleaning the bore of a cannon after a discharge. It consists of a cylinder of wood, covered with sheepskin with the wool on, or cloth with a heavy looped nap, and having a handle, or staff.
- 12.
(countable, uncountable)The extremity, or point, of a horseshoe, corresponding to the heel.
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(countable, slang, uncountable)A nuclear power plant worker routinely exposed to radiation.
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verb- 1.
(intransitive, slang)To take advantage of the kindness of others.
He has been sponging off his friends for a month now.
- 2.
(transitive)(transitive, intransitive with on or upon) To get by imposition; to scrounge.
July 17 1735, Jonathan Swift, letter to Lord Ornery I am an utter stranger to the persons and places, except when half a score come to sponge on me every Sunday evening
to sponge a breakfast
Đồng nghĩa: blag
- 3.
(transitive)To deprive (somebody) of something by imposition.
- 4.
To clean, soak up, or dab with a sponge.
- 5.
To suck in, or imbibe, like a sponge.
- 6.
To wipe out with a sponge, as letters or writing; to efface; to destroy all trace of.
- 7.
(intransitive)(intransitive, baking) To be converted, as dough, into a light, spongy mass by the agency of yeast or leaven.
- 8.
(marine biology, of dolphins) To use a piece of wild sponge as a tool when foraging for food.
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From Middle English sponge, from Old English spunge, taken from Latin spongia, from Ancient Greek σπογγιά, from σπόγγος. Displaced native swamm.