schnorrer

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Recent Examples of schnorrer For ancient Greek and Roman satirists, the term denoted what many of us now assume to be the figurative meaning: a sponger, a schnorrer, a person dining at someone else’s table, at someone else’s expense. Jerome Groopman, The New Yorker, 5 Dec. 2022 Mel Brooks, who had an office adjacent to Grant’s at Universal, and who began with a slobbering fan-like admiration for him, after a few lunches together dismissed him as a schnorrer—Yiddish for freeloader, beggar, cheapskate—and ceased taking his phone calls. Joseph Epstein, WSJ, 16 Oct. 2020
Recent Examples of Synonyms for schnorrer
Noun
  • Got a lot of mountains to climb, had to leave some beggars behind.
    Ilana Kaplan, PEOPLE, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Indeed, the beauty of New Orleans proper was found in its colorful variety of humans—the loons and cons, the beggars and peddlers.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 3 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • But poor people on Medicaid or food stamps, according to this administration, those are the real moochers in this country.
    Andrew Stanton, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 May 2025
  • Simply put, some animals don’t like moochers.
    Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 13 Dec. 2024

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“Schnorrer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/schnorrer. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.

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