1. scrounging - Noun
2. scrounging - Verb
scrounging
present participle of scrounge
The act of one who scrounges.
(in the plural) Material that has been scrounged.
Source: en.wiktionary.orgYou used to laugh about Everybody that was hangin' out Now you don't talk so loud Now you don't seem so proud About having to be scrounging for your next meal. Bob Dylan
I had some years of definite frustration. Auditioning and not working as much as I would have liked to, or working and being paid a pittance, and sort of scrounging by in New York and sleeping on a chair that folded out into a bed. Gillian Jacobs
At first, we lived in very, very small places... with my mom cleaning houses and scrounging up just enough to keep us in town with a working car. She introduced me to my first agent, and I started with stand-in work, then eventually commercials and television guest-shots. Keith Coogan
Biographer Ed Sanders notes, “The reality was that he was a glib grubby little man with a guitar scrounging for young girls using mysticism and guru babble.” Source: Internet
On weekends, Melissa took ballroom dancing lessons and prowled stoop sales while I took the train home to my parents’ house and burned my fingers scrounging for spare change at the back of their dryer. Source: Internet
“I’m kind of a saver, like my dad and grandpa, and so we’ve been scrounging around and saving old things; there’s a lot of sentimental things in the house,” Laurie explained. Source: Internet