English

Verb

scrounging

1. present participle of scrounge

Noun

scrounging ‎(plural scroungings)

1. The act of one who scrounges.
   • 2002, Marie-Anne Lescourret, Rubens: A Portrait (page 160)

     What mattered to Vincenzo may have been a temporary lack of money (his wild living led him into frequent scroungings for cash; he was a bit of a spendthrift).

2. (in the plural) Material that has been scrounged.
   • 2010, Liane Merciel, The River Kings' Road (page 110)

     Most of them were armed but not wealthy, outfitted in battered leather and the scroungings of a half-dozen battlefields.