Sponge - Crossword Clue

Crossword Clue Last Updated: 10/03/2025

Below are possible answers for the crossword clue Sponge.

3 letter answer(s) to sponge

BUM
  1. a disreputable vagrant; "a homeless tramp"; "he tried to help the really down-and-out bums"
  2. a person who is deemed to be despicable or contemptible; "only a rotter would do that"; "kill the rat"; "throw the bum out"; "you cowardly little pukes!"; "the British call a contemptible person a `git'"
  3. ask for and get free; be a parasite
  4. be lazy or idle; "Her son is just bumming around all day"
  5. of very poor quality; flimsy
  6. person who does no work; "a lazy bum"
  7. the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on; "he deserves a good kick in the butt"; "are you going to sit on your fanny and do nothing?"
SOT
  1. a chronic drinker

5 letter answer(s) to sponge

CADGE
  1. a portable perch on which several hawks may be carried by a falconer
  2. ask for and get free; be a parasite
  3. obtain or seek to obtain by cadging or wheedling;
  4. sponge
LEECH
  1. a follower who hangs around a host (without benefit to the host) in hope of gain or advantage
  2. carnivorous or bloodsucking aquatic or terrestrial worms typically having a sucker at each end
  3. draw blood; "In the old days, doctors routinely bled patients as part of the treatment"
  4. Leech – The aft (back) edge of a fore-and-aft sail is called the leech (also spelled leach).
MOOCH
  1. ask for and get free; be a parasite
  2. someone who mooches or cadges (tries to get something free)

6 letter answer(s) to sponge

CADGER
  1. someone who mooches or cadges (tries to get something free)
FREOAD
WIPEUP

8 letter answer(s) to sponge

FREELOAD
  1. live off somebody's generosity; "This young man refuses to work and is freeloading"

10 letter answer(s) to sponge

FREELOADER
  1. someone who takes advantage of the generosity of others

7 letter answer(s) to sponge

MOISTEN
  1. make moist; "The dew moistened the meadows"
  2. moisten with fine drops; "drizzle the meat with melted butter"

Other crossword clues with similar answers to 'Sponge'

Naughty so-and-so, say, twirling bum
No-good
No-goodnik
Obtain by sponging
Old doctor who’s after your blood?
Old doctor, lewd fellow, with extra energy
One may be drying out
One who can't pass the ba
One who mooches
One who's very wet?
Parasite
Parasite caught in part of foot when getting up
Parasite finds shelter on top of church
Parasite found in juvenile echidna
Parasite left on tree, destroying billions
Parasitic type
Person who's no good for one, flipping bum
Pick up like a sponge?
Pink elephant sighter
Poor
Pub crawler
Rake, for example, up bum
Rummy
Saucehound
Scout occasionally drunk
Scrounge
Scrounge (money, etc)
Scrounge penny once in prison
Scrounger having caught fish returned horse
Second figure behind is wet
Shelter beside church drain
Sighter of pink elephants
Skulk about church after feeling diminished
Skulk around, not the first to kiss
Slightly wet, Maureen is figure on the left
Slurrer, perhaps
Soak
Souse
Spare change seeker
Sponge off others
Sponge saddle cover?
Sponger
Sponger to dance, wearing jaunty fedora
Sprinkle items on ground
Sucker
Sucker about to wear 8 shortly after getting up
Sucker expecting shelter to be offered by church
Sucker will disbelieve the basic truth, last of all
Tip of didgeridoo wedged in composer's bum
Tipplemeister
Tippler
Toper
Unravelling net, I'm so wet
Use a paper towel
Very tired to start with, one usually sloshed
W. C. Fields persona
Wander aimlessly around Low Countries at first, then Hungary
Wet
Wet chamois tends to gather
Wino
Wobbly walker
Worm - sponger
Worry, needing chapter for book? That's a bummer

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