scrounging
English
[edit]Verb
[edit]scrounging
- present participle and gerund of scrounge
Noun
[edit]scrounging (plural scroungings)
- The act of one who scrounges.
- 2002, Marie-Anne Lescourret, Rubens: A Portrait, page 160:
- 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).
- (in the plural) Material that has been scrounged.
- 2010, Liane Merciel, The River Kings' Road, page 110:
- Most of them were armed but not wealthy, outfitted in battered leather and the scroungings of a half-dozen battlefields.