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scroungers

  • 1 gorrón

    adj.
    cadging, sponging.
    m.
    1 freeloader, deadbeat, sponger, cadger.
    2 pebble.
    3 pivot, male pivot.
    4 paving stone.
    * * *
    1 familiar scrounging, sponging
    ► nombre masculino,nombre femenino
    1 sponger, scrounger
    * * *
    I
    SM
    1) (=guijarro) pebble; (=adoquín) cobblestone
    2) (Mec) pivot, journal
    II
    gorrón, -ona
    * SM / F (=aprovechado) sponger *, cadger *, parasite
    * * *
    - rrona masculino, femenino (Esp, Méx fam) scrounger (colloq)
    * * *
    = scrounger, deadbeat, free rider.
    Nota: Persona que se beneficia de un actividad de un individuo o grupo sin contribuir a él.
    Ex. Consequently, claimants became disillusioned and, if they complained, were dismissed scroungers who were never satisfied.
    Ex. It is generally recognized that collecting money from moneyed deadbeats is as much a social problem as street thuggery.
    Ex. Free riders are those who use the information provided by others without contributing evaluations of their own.
    * * *
    - rrona masculino, femenino (Esp, Méx fam) scrounger (colloq)
    * * *
    = scrounger, deadbeat, free rider.
    Nota: Persona que se beneficia de un actividad de un individuo o grupo sin contribuir a él.

    Ex: Consequently, claimants became disillusioned and, if they complained, were dismissed scroungers who were never satisfied.

    Ex: It is generally recognized that collecting money from moneyed deadbeats is as much a social problem as street thuggery.
    Ex: Free riders are those who use the information provided by others without contributing evaluations of their own.

    * * *
    (Esp, Méx fam): no seas gorrón why don't you stop scrounging? ( colloq), stop being such a scrounger o freeloader ( colloq)
    masculine, feminine
    1 (Esp, Méx fam) (aprovechado) scrounger ( colloq), freeloader ( colloq), sponger ( BrE colloq)
    estoy harta de que esa gorrona me pida tabaco I'm sick to death of that scrounger asking me for cigarettes o of that woman scrounging cigarettes off me ( colloq)
    2
    gorrón masculine ( Tec) bearing
    * * *

    gorrón
    ◊ - rrona sustantivo masculino, femenino (Esp, Méx fam) scrounger (colloq)

    gorrón,-ona m,f fam sponger, scrounger

    ' gorrón' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    gorrona
    - sablista
    - vividor
    - vividora
    English:
    gatecrasher
    - scrounger
    * * *
    gorrón, -ona Esp, Méx Fam
    ♦ adj
    sponging, scrounging;
    es muy gorrón he's always sponging o scrounging, he's always on the scrounge
    ♦ nm,f
    sponger, scrounger
    * * *
    m, gorrona f fam
    scrounger fam
    * * *
    gorrón, - rrona n, mpl gorrones fam : freeloader, scrounger

    Spanish-English dictionary > gorrón

  • 2 parásito

    adj.
    parasitic, parasitical.
    m.
    parasite, infester, epiphyte.
    * * *
    1 parasitic
    1 BIOLOGÍA parasite
    2 peyorativo (persona) parasite, hanger-on
    1 RADIO interference sing
    ————————
    1 BIOLOGÍA parasite
    2 peyorativo (persona) parasite, hanger-on
    * * *
    1.
    ADJ parasitic (de on)
    2. SM
    1) (Bio) parasite (tb fig)
    2) pl parásitos (Radio) atmospherics pl, statics sing
    3) CAm squatter
    * * *
    I
    - ta adjetivo parasitic
    II
    2) parásitos masculino plural ( interferencia) atmospherics (pl)
    * * *
    = hanger-on, scrounger, parasite, mite.
    Ex. Reference librarians must have the capability of kindly and tactfully disentangling themselves from hangers-on who would monopolize their time, to the detriment of others.
    Ex. Consequently, claimants became disillusioned and, if they complained, were dismissed scroungers who were never satisfied.
    Ex. I have nothing against Aussies but I do have something against parasites who steal off someone else's ideas.
    Ex. The diseases and infestations caused by mites, lice, bed bugs, fleas, and ticks are discussed.
    ----
    * como parásito = parasitically.
    * en forma de parásito = parasitically.
    * infección de parásitos = parasitisation [parasitization, -USA].
    * parásito de la sociedad = parasite.
    * parásito del libro = book insect.
    * * *
    I
    - ta adjetivo parasitic
    II
    2) parásitos masculino plural ( interferencia) atmospherics (pl)
    * * *
    = hanger-on, scrounger, parasite, mite.

    Ex: Reference librarians must have the capability of kindly and tactfully disentangling themselves from hangers-on who would monopolize their time, to the detriment of others.

    Ex: Consequently, claimants became disillusioned and, if they complained, were dismissed scroungers who were never satisfied.
    Ex: I have nothing against Aussies but I do have something against parasites who steal off someone else's ideas.
    Ex: The diseases and infestations caused by mites, lice, bed bugs, fleas, and ticks are discussed.
    * como parásito = parasitically.
    * en forma de parásito = parasitically.
    * infección de parásitos = parasitisation [parasitization, -USA].
    * parásito de la sociedad = parasite.
    * parásito del libro = book insect.

    * * *
    parásito1 -ta
    parasitic
    A
    1 ( Bot, Zool) parasite
    2 (persona) parasite
    parásitos sociales social parasites
    B parásitos mpl (interferencia) atmospherics (pl), interference
    * * *

    Del verbo parasitar: ( conjugate parasitar)

    parasito es:

    1ª persona singular (yo) presente indicativo

    parasitó es:

    3ª persona singular (él/ella/usted) pretérito indicativo

    Multiple Entries:
    parasitar    
    parásito
    parásito sustantivo masculino
    parasite
    parásito,-a adjetivo & sustantivo masculino parasite: su cuñado es un auténtico parásito, her brother-in-law is a real bloodsucker
    ' parásito' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    parásita
    English:
    hanger-on
    - parasite
    * * *
    parásito, -a
    ♦ adj
    Biol parasitic
    ♦ nm
    1. Biol parasite
    2. [persona] parasite
    parásito social social parasite
    3. Tel
    parásitos [interferencias] static
    * * *
    m parasite;
    parásitos pl en radio interference sg, atmospherics
    * * *
    : parasite

    Spanish-English dictionary > parásito

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