spongebag

English

Noun

spongebag (plural spongebags)

1. Alternative form of sponge bag
   • 1964, Punch, page 166:

     I had an aunt who used to stand on her spongebag in a cupboard under the stairs during bad storms and very much admired her combination of scientific knowledge with strong common sense. […] So in future I hope to have the moral courage to act as instinctively as a fish and as wisely as an aunt, merely substituting gumboots, as being a shade more manly than spongebags.

   • 1999, John le Carré [pen name; David John Moore Cornwell], Single & Single, Hodder and Stoughton, →ISBN:

     He hung his jacket in the wardrobe, extracted the timetables, wedged them under his arm, slung a bathrobe over his shoulder, collected his spongebag and, mumbling something about taking a bath in the morning, shuffled into the bathroom and locked the door.

   • 2007, Santa Montefiore, Sea of Lost Love, Touchstone, published 2008, →ISBN, page 143:

     “A fine example our father set,” Celestria scoffed, spraying on perfume before putting it in her spongebag. […] She placed her spongebag on top of the clothes that lay in a messy heap in the suitcase.

Related terms

• spongebag pants, spongebags, spongebag trousers