sponging
English
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Verb
[edit]sponging
- present participle and gerund of sponge
- 1881–1882, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island, London; Paris: Cassell & Company, published 14 November 1883, →OCLC:
- I'm to be a poor, crawling beggar, sponging for rum, when I might be rolling in a coach!
Noun
[edit]sponging (plural spongings)
- The application of a sponge.
- 1815, William Shearman, New Medical and Physical Journal:
- I have employed cold air, and very often spongings with cold water, in order to moderate the preternatural heat of the skin, and to check the increased velocity of the circulation.