sponge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: spŭnj
ipa: /spʌnd͡ʒ/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈspəɲdʒ/
note: spelling pronunciation
ipa: /ˈspɔɲdʒ/
rhymes: -ʌndʒ
Forms: form: sponges
Etymology: From Middle English sponge, from Old English spunge, taken from Latin spongia, from Ancient Greek σπογγιά (spongiá), from σπόγγος (spóngos).
Senses: synonyms: sea sponge
bath sponge
poriferan
porifer
glosses: Any of various marine invertebrates of the phylum Porifera, that have a porous skeleton often of silica.
examples: text: She removed Stranleigh’s coat with a dexterity that aroused his imagination. The elder woman returned with dressings and a sponge, which she placed on a chair.
ref: 1913, Robert Barr, chapter 5, in Lord Stranleigh Abroad:
synonyms: bath sponge
glosses: A piece of porous material used for washing (originally made from the invertebrates, now often made of plastic).
glosses: The porous material that synthetic washing sponges are made of.
synonyms: word: souse
word: swill-pot
word: alco
word: alcoholic
word: alkie
word: bacchanal
word: bacchant
word: barfly
word: bibber
word: booze artist
word: boozehound
word: boozer
word: borachio
word: bouser
word: carouser
word: cupster
word: dipso
word: dipsomaniac
word: drinker
word: drunk
word: drunkard
word: fuddlecap
word: fuddler
word: grog artist
word: guzzler
word: inebriate
word: juicehead
word: lick-wimble
word: lush
word: lusher
word: maltworm
word: pisshead
word: pisspot
word: plonko
word: reel-pot
word: rinse-pitcher
word: rumpot
word: shicker
word: slubberdegullion
word: soak
word: soaker
word: sot
word: souse
word: sponge
word: squeeze-grape
word: sucker
word: suck-pint
word: swill-belly
word: swill-bowl
word: swill-flagon
word: swill-pot
word: swill-tub
word: swillking
word: tippler
word: toper
word: tosspot
word: tun
word: winebibber
word: winesop
word: wino
glosses: A heavy drinker.
synonyms: sponge cake
glosses: A type of light cake.
synonyms: sponge pudding
glosses: A type of steamed pudding.
synonyms: word: freeloader
word: sponger
word: bloodsucker
word: bummer
word: freeloader
word: free rider
word: gadfly
word: leech
word: mooch
word: moocher
word: parasite
word: scrounge
word: scrounger
word: scunge
word: smell-feast
word: sponge
word: sponger
word: sucker
word: trencher mate
glosses: A person who takes advantage of the generosity of others (abstractly imagined to absorb or soak up the money or efforts of others like a sponge).
examples: text: For this reason, we need to think of our children as sponges of information and watch their sources carefully. We also need to always model appropriate behaviour, as we are a constant source of new information.
ref: 2014, Phoeve Hutchison, Are You Listening? Life Is Talking to You!, page 145:
glosses: A person who readily absorbs ideas.
glosses: A form of contraception that is inserted vaginally; a contraceptive sponge.
topics: baking
cooking
food
lifestyle
glosses: Any sponge-like substance.
Dough before it is kneaded and formed into loaves, and after it is converted into a light, spongy mass by the agency of the yeast or leaven.
glosses: Any sponge-like substance.
Iron from the puddling furnace, in a pasty condition.
glosses: Any sponge-like substance.
Iron ore, in masses, reduced but not melted or worked.
glosses: A mop for cleaning the bore of a cannon after a discharge. It consists of a cylinder of wood, covered with sheepskin with the wool on, or cloth with a heavy looped nap, and having a handle, or staff.
glosses: The extremity, or point, of a horseshoe, corresponding to the heel.
glosses: A nuclear power plant worker routinely exposed to radiation.
Derived terms: bacteriosponge
barrel sponge
breadcrumb sponge
bullet sponge
calcareous sponge
calcisponge
chewing sponge
chuck up the sponge
contraceptive sponge
coralline sponge
cyanosponge
cytosponge
demosponge
disponge
draw a sponge over the slate
fun sponge
glass sponge
globe sponge
glove sponge
honeycomb sponge
lyre sponge
Menger sponge
menstrual sponge
microsponge
nanosponge
pass a sponge over the slate
platinum sponge
sclerosponge
sea sponge
set a sponge
sheepswool sponge
Sierpinski sponge
slime sponge
smoke sponge
sponge bag
sponge-bag pants
spongebag pants
spongebags
sponge bath
sponge-brained
sponge brush
sponge cake
spongecase
sponge city
sponge cloth
sponge construction
sponge crab
sponge down
spongeful
sponge function
sponge gourd
spongeless
spongelet
spongelike
sponge out
sponge roll
sponge tax
sponge toffee
spongeware
spongework
spongeworthy
spongey
spongicolous
spongin
spongivore
spongoblast
spongoid
spongy
squat sponge
throw in the sponge
throw up the sponge
titanium sponge
tubular sponge hydroid
Turkey toilet sponge
Victoria sponge
Related terms: foam