'Sponging' definitions:
Definition of 'Sponging'
From: GCIDE
- Sponge \Sponge\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Sponged (sp[u^]njd); p. pr. & vb. n. Sponging (sp[u^]n"j[i^]ng).]
- 1. To cleanse or wipe with a sponge; as, to sponge a slate or a cannon; to wet with a sponge; as, to sponge cloth. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To wipe out with a sponge, as letters or writing; to efface; to destroy all trace of. --Hooker. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Fig.: To deprive of something by imposition. "How came such multitudes of our nation . . . to be sponged of their plate and their money?" --South. [1913 Webster]
- 4. Fig.: To get by imposition or mean arts without cost; as, to sponge a breakfast. --Swift. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Sponging'
From: GCIDE
- Sponging \Spon"ging\ (-j[i^]ng), a. & n. from Sponge, v. [1913 Webster]
- Sponging house (Eng. Law), a bailiff's or other house in which debtors are put before being taken to jail, or until they compromise with their creditors. At these houses extortionate charges are commonly made for food, lodging, etc. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'sponging'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abject,
- ablution,
- absorbency,
- absorbent,
- absorption,
- adsorbent,
- adsorption,
- apple-polishing,
- ass-kissing,
- assimilation,
- backscratching,
- beggarly,
- blotter,
- blotting,
- blotting paper,
- bone-lazy,
- bootlicking,
- brown-nosing,
- cadging,
- chemisorption,
- chemosorption,
- cleaning out,
- cowering,
- crawling,
- cringing,
- crouching,
- digestion,
- dilatory,
- do-nothing,
- doless,
- douche,
- douching,
- dronish,
- drony,
- easy,
- elution,
- elutriation,
- endosmosis,
- enema,
- engrossment,
- ergophobic,
- exosmosis,
- faineant,
- fawnery,
- fawning,
- flattering,
- flunkyism,
- flush,
- flushing,
- flushing out,
- footlicking,
- good-for-nothing,
- groveling,
- handshaking,
- hangdog,
- indolent,
- infiltration,
- ingratiating,
- ingratiation,
- insinuation,
- irrigation,
- laggard,
- lathering,
- lavabo,
- lavage,
- lavation,
- laving,
- lax,
- lazy,
- mealymouthed,
- mealymouthedness,
- mopping,
- mopping up,
- nonaggressive,
- obeisance,
- obeisant,
- obsequious,
- obsequiousness,
- on bended knee,
- osmosis,
- parasitic,
- parasitism,
- percolation,
- procrastinative,
- prostrate,
- prostration,
- remiss,
- rinse,
- rinsing,
- scouring,
- scrounging,
- scrub,
- scrubbing,
- scrubbing up,
- seepage,
- shampoo,
- shiftless,
- slack,
- slothful,
- slow,
- sniveling,
- soaping,
- sorption,
- sponge,
- swabbing,
- sycophancy,
- sycophantic,
- timeserving,
- toadeating,
- toadying,
- toadyish,
- toadyism,
- truckling,
- tufthunting,
- unenterprising,
- wash,
- washing,
- washing up,
- washout,
- washup,
- wiping up,
- work-shy
Words containing 'Sponging'
- Spong,
- Sponge,
- Sponged,
- sponge down,
- sponge off,
- sponge on,
- sponge up,
- Bath sponge,
- Cup sponge,
- Finger sponge,
- Glass sponge,
- Glove sponge,
- Grass sponge,
- Horse sponge,
- Platinum sponge,
- Pyrotechnical sponge,
- Sponge cake,
- Sponge lead,
- Sponge tree,
- Sponging house,
- To set a sponge,
- To throw up the sponge,
- Toilet sponge,
- Turkey sponge,
- Turkish sponge,
- Vegetable sponge,
- Velvet sponge,
- Vitreous sponge,
- Yellow sponge,
- chuck up the sponge,
- loufah sponge,
- madeira sponge,
- sponge bag,
- sponge bath,
- sponge cloth,
- sponge genus,
- sponge gourd,
- sponge mop,
- sponge morel,
- sponge mushroom,
- victoria sponge,
- Egyptian bath sponge,
- Glass-sponge,
- Sheep's-wool sponge