v. 1 ferret out, seek out, nose or smell out, come up with, scrape together or up, scratch up; importune, cadge, beg (, borrow, or steal), Colloq US freeload, bum Did Hedley try to scrounge some money from you, too?
n. 2 scrounger, cadger, parasite, Colloq sponger, US freeloader Hedley, that scrounge, has just asked me for a cigarette