prosser

See also: Prosser

English

Etymology

pross +‎ -er

Noun

prosser (plural prossers)

1. (UK, slang, obsolete) One who prosses; a sponger or scrounger.
   • 1958, Guy Deghy, Paradise in the Strand: The Story of Romano's, page 164:

     […] swore that he had a vast income of his own and only borrowed money for the pleasure he got out of the process. A man unfleeced was a day lost in the life of Fatty. Seasoned bookies like Charlie Head or Dick Dunn, as shrewd a moneylender as Sam Lewis, or even other prossers, […]

References

• John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary