Exact Match:
- spiv
- a person without employment who makes money by various dubious schemes; goes about smartly dressed and having a good time
Synonyms:
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Related Words:
- lounge lizard
collapse - a man who idles about in the lounges of hotels and bars in search of women who would support him related words >
- nonworker
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- a person who does nothing related words >
- sponger
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- a workman employed to collect sponges related words >
- barnacle,
- beat,
- beggar,
- bloodsucker,
- bummer,
- cadger,
- coupon clippers,
- deadbeat,
- drone,
- freeloader,
- hanger-on,
- idle rich,
- leech,
- leisure class,
- lounge lizard,
- lumpen proletariat,
- mendicant,
- moocher,
- nonworker,
- panhandler,
- parasite,
- rentiers,
- smell-feast,
- spiv,
- sponge,
- sucker,
- the unemployable,
- the unemployed
- panhandler
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- a beggar who approaches strangers asking for money related words >
- beggar,
- bum,
- bummer,
- cadger,
- coupon clippers,
- drone,
- freeloader,
- hobo,
- idle rich,
- leisure class,
- loafer,
- lounge lizard,
- lumpen proletariat,
- mendicant,
- mendicant friar,
- mendicant order,
- moocher,
- nonworker,
- parasite,
- rentiers,
- schnorrer,
- scrounger,
- spiv,
- sponger,
- the unemployable,
- the unemployed,
- tramp
- barnacle
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- marine crustaceans with feathery food-catching appendages; free-swimming as larvae; as adults form a hard shell and live attached to submerged surfaces related words >
- adherent,
- adhesive,
- beat,
- bloodsucker,
- bramble,
- brier,
- bulldog,
- burr,
- cement,
- deadbeat,
- decal,
- decalcomania,
- freeloader,
- glue,
- gunk,
- hanger-on,
- leech,
- limpet,
- lounge lizard,
- molasses,
- mucilage,
- parasite,
- paste,
- plaster,
- prickle,
- remora,
- smell-feast,
- spiv,
- sponge,
- sponger,
- sticker,
- sucker,
- syrup,
- thorn
- slacker
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- a person who shirks their work or duty (especially one who tries to evade military service in wartime) related words >
- bungler,
- clock watcher,
- disregarder,
- dodger,
- eye-servant,
- goldbrick,
- goldbricker,
- goof-off,
- idler,
- ignorer,
- loafer,
- malingerer,
- neglecter,
- negligent,
- old soldier,
- procrastinator,
- shirk,
- shirker,
- skulk,
- skulker,
- slinker,
- sloven,
- slugabed,
- sluggard,
- slut,
- soldier,
- spiv,
- tax dodger,
- trifler,
- truant,
- waiter on Providence,
- welsher
- moocher
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- someone who mooches or cadges (tries to get something free) related words >
- beggar,
- bum,
- bummer,
- cadger,
- caller,
- company,
- coupon clippers,
- drone,
- freeloader,
- frequenter,
- gate-crasher,
- guest,
- habitue,
- hobo,
- idle rich,
- leisure class,
- loafer,
- lounge lizard,
- lumpen proletariat,
- mendicant,
- mendicant friar,
- mendicant order,
- nonworker,
- panhandler,
- parasite,
- rentiers,
- schnorrer,
- scrounger,
- spiv,
- sponger,
- the unemployable,
- the unemployed,
- tramp,
- uninvited guest,
- visitant,
- visitor
- beggar,
- bum,
- bummer,
- chapman,
- cheap-jack,
- cheap-john,
- colporteur,
- coster,
- costermonger,
- coupon clippers,
- drone,
- freeloader,
- hawker,
- higgler,
- hobo,
- huckster,
- idle rich,
- leisure class,
- loafer,
- lounge lizard,
- lumpen proletariat,
- mendicant,
- mendicant friar,
- mendicant order,
- moocher,
- nonworker,
- panhandler,
- parasite,
- peddler,
- rentiers,
- schnorrer,
- scrounger,
- sidewalk salesman,
- spiv,
- sponger,
- the unemployable,
- the unemployed,
- tramp,
- vendor
- freeloader
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- someone who takes advantage of the generosity of others related words >
- barnacle,
- beat,
- beggar,
- bloodsucker,
- bummer,
- cadger,
- caller,
- company,
- coupon clippers,
- deadbeat,
- deadhead,
- drone,
- free rider,
- frequenter,
- gate-crasher,
- guest,
- habitue,
- hanger-on,
- idle rich,
- leech,
- leisure class,
- lounge lizard,
- lumpen proletariat,
- mendicant,
- moocher,
- nonworker,
- panhandler,
- paper,
- paper house,
- parasite,
- pass holder,
- rentiers,
- smell-feast,
- spiv,
- sponge,
- sponger,
- sucker,
- the unemployable,
- the unemployed,
- uninvited guest,
- visitant,
- visitor,
- well
- adherent,
- appendage,
- attendant,
- barnacle,
- bloodsucker,
- buff,
- bystander,
- cavaliere servente,
- courtier,
- creature,
- dangler,
- dependent,
- disciple,
- dummy,
- fan,
- feudatory,
- figurehead,
- flunky,
- follower,
- following,
- freeloader,
- gillie,
- goon,
- hatchet man,
- heeler,
- henchman,
- homager,
- homme de cour,
- inferior,
- jackal,
- lackey,
- leech,
- liege,
- liege man,
- lounge lizard,
- man,
- minion,
- myrmidon,
- parasite,
- partisan,
- peon,
- public,
- puppet,
- pursuer,
- pursuivant,
- retainer,
- satellite,
- sectary,
- serf,
- servant,
- shadow,
- slave,
- spectator,
- spiv,
- sponge,
- sponger,
- stooge,
- subordinate,
- successor,
- sucker,
- supporter,
- sycophant,
- tagtail,
- tail,
- thug,
- trainbearer,
- underling,
- understrapper,
- vassal,
- votary,
- ward heeler,
- yeoman
- beggar,
- bourgeoisie,
- bummer,
- cadger,
- common people,
- common run,
- common sort,
- commonage,
- commonality,
- commonalty,
- commoners,
- commons,
- coupon clippers,
- drone,
- freeloader,
- idle rich,
- laborers,
- leisure class,
- linendrapers,
- lounge lizard,
- lower classes,
- lower middle class,
- lower orders,
- mendicant,
- middle class,
- middle orders,
- moocher,
- nonworker,
- ordinary people,
- panhandler,
- parasite,
- peasantry,
- plain folks,
- plain people,
- proletariat,
- rank and file,
- rentiers,
- shopkeepers,
- small tradesmen,
- spiv,
- sponger,
- the lower cut,
- the other half,
- the third estate,
- the unemployable,
- the unemployed,
- toilers,
- toiling class,
- upper middle class,
- vulgus,
- working class,
- working people
- unemployed
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- not engaged in a gainful occupation; "unemployed workers marched on the capital" related words >
- at a standstill,
- at anchor,
- at leisure,
- at liberty,
- at loose ends,
- available,
- beggar,
- bummer,
- cadger,
- coupon clippers,
- dead-still,
- disengaged,
- drone,
- extra,
- fallow,
- fired,
- fixed,
- free,
- freeloader,
- fresh,
- held back,
- held in reserve,
- held out,
- idle,
- idle rich,
- immobile,
- immotive,
- in abeyance,
- in hand,
- jobless,
- leisure,
- leisure class,
- leisured,
- let go,
- lounge lizard,
- lumpen,
- lumpen proletariat,
- mendicant,
- mint,
- moocher,
- motionless,
- moveless,
- new,
- nonworker,
- off,
- off duty,
- off work,
- original,
- otiose,
- out of commission,
- out of employ,
- out of harness,
- out of work,
- panhandler,
- parasite,
- pristine,
- put aside,
- put by,
- rentiers,
- reserve,
- riding at anchor,
- saved,
- spare,
- spiv,
- sponger,
- static,
- stationary,
- statuelike,
- still,
- stock-still,
- stored,
- suspended,
- the unemployable,
- the unemployed,
- to spare,
- unapplied,
- unbeaten,
- unconsumed,
- unemployable,
- unengaged,
- unexercised,
- unexpended,
- unhandled,
- unmoved,
- unmoving,
- unoccupied,
- unspent,
- untapped,
- untouched,
- untrodden,
- unused,
- unutilized,
- waived,
- workless
- sucker
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- mostly North American freshwater fishes with a thick-lipped mouth for feeding by suction; related to carps
- an organ specialized for sucking nourishment or for adhering to objects by suction
- flesh of any of numerous North American food fishes with toothless jaws
- a drinker who sucks (as at a nipple or through a straw)
- a shoot arising from a plant's roots related words >
- babe,
- barnacle,
- beat,
- bilk,
- bine,
- bloodsucker,
- boob,
- bough,
- branch,
- branchedness,
- branchiness,
- burgeon,
- butt,
- chump,
- cinch,
- client,
- cozen,
- credulous person,
- cull,
- customer,
- deadwood,
- defraud,
- diddle,
- do,
- dupe,
- easy mark,
- easy pickings,
- fair game,
- fall guy,
- fish,
- flagellum,
- fool,
- fork,
- freeloader,
- frond,
- goat,
- gobe-mouches,
- greener,
- greenhorn,
- greeny,
- gudgeon,
- gull,
- gyp,
- hanger-on,
- innocent,
- leadpipe cinch,
- leech,
- limb,
- lounge lizard,
- mark,
- monkey,
- mug,
- offshoot,
- overreach,
- patron,
- patsy,
- pigeon,
- plaything,
- prize sap,
- prospect,
- pushover,
- ramage,
- ramification,
- regular,
- regular customer,
- runner,
- sap,
- saphead,
- sapling,
- sarment,
- schlemiel,
- scion,
- seedling,
- set,
- shoot,
- sitting duck,
- slip,
- soft touch,
- spear,
- spiv,
- sponge,
- sponger,
- spray,
- sprig,
- sprit,
- sprout,
- stolon,
- stooge,
- switch,
- take,
- tendril,
- thallus,
- toy,
- trusting soul,
- twig,
- victim
- mendicant
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- practicing beggary; "mendicant friars" related words >
- Albigensian,
- Catharist,
- Franciscan,
- Sabbatarian,
- Trappist,
- Waldensian,
- abbacomes,
- abbot,
- abstainer,
- abstinent,
- anchorite,
- anchoritic,
- ascetic,
- austere,
- beadsman,
- beggar,
- beggared,
- beggarly,
- begging,
- bereaved,
- bereft,
- bhikshu,
- brother,
- bum,
- bummer,
- cadger,
- cadging,
- caloyer,
- celibate,
- cenobite,
- conventual,
- conventual prior,
- coupon clippers,
- deprived,
- dervish,
- disadvantaged,
- drone,
- eremitic,
- fakir,
- flagellant,
- fleeced,
- freeloader,
- friar,
- ghettoized,
- grand prior,
- hermit,
- hieromonach,
- hobo,
- idle rich,
- impoverished,
- in need,
- in rags,
- in want,
- indigent,
- lay abbot,
- lay brother,
- leisure class,
- loafer,
- lounge lizard,
- lumpen proletariat,
- mendicant friar,
- mendicant order,
- monastic,
- monk,
- moocher,
- mooching,
- necessitous,
- needy,
- nonworker,
- on relief,
- out at elbows,
- palmer,
- panhandler,
- parasite,
- pauperized,
- petitionary,
- pilgrim,
- pillar saint,
- pillarist,
- poverty-stricken,
- prayerful,
- precative,
- prior,
- puritan,
- puritanical,
- religieux,
- religious,
- rentiers,
- rigoristic,
- sannyasi,
- schnorrer,
- scrounger,
- scrounging,
- self-denying,
- spiv,
- sponger,
- starveling,
- stripped,
- stylite,
- suppliant,
- supplicant,
- supplicating,
- supplicatory,
- the unemployable,
- the unemployed,
- tramp,
- underprivileged,
- wedded to poverty,
- yogi,
- yogin
- goldbrick
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- anything that is supposed to be valuable but turns out to be worthless
- a brick-shaped block that looks like gold but is not
- an idle worthless person
- a soldier who performs his duties without proper care or effort related words >
- abandon,
- boiler room,
- bucket shop,
- bum,
- bunco game,
- bungler,
- clock watcher,
- con game,
- confidence game,
- cut,
- dallier,
- dawdle,
- dawdler,
- diddler,
- dillydallier,
- disregarder,
- do-nothing,
- dodge,
- dodger,
- dog it,
- dolittle,
- doodler,
- drone,
- duck,
- duck duty,
- eye-servant,
- faineant,
- foot-dragger,
- gentleman of leisure,
- get out of,
- goldbricker,
- goof off,
- goof-off,
- idler,
- ignorer,
- jump,
- laggard,
- laze,
- lazy,
- leave,
- leave loose ends,
- leave undone,
- let alone,
- let be,
- let dangle,
- let go,
- lie-abed,
- lingerer,
- loaf,
- loafer,
- loiter,
- loiterer,
- loll,
- loller,
- lotus-eater,
- lounge,
- lounger,
- lubber,
- malinger,
- malingerer,
- miss,
- mope,
- moper,
- neglecter,
- negligent,
- not pull fair,
- old soldier,
- omit,
- pass over,
- pass up,
- plodder,
- potterer,
- pretermit,
- procrastinate,
- procrastinator,
- putterer,
- shell game,
- shirk,
- shirker,
- skin game,
- skip,
- skulk,
- skulker,
- slack,
- slacker,
- sleepyhead,
- slide out of,
- slinker,
- slip out of,
- slouch,
- sloucher,
- sloven,
- slow goer,
- slow-foot,
- slowbelly,
- slowpoke,
- slug,
- sluggard,
- slut,
- snail,
- sneak out of,
- soldier,
- spiv,
- stick-in-the-mud,
- tax dodger,
- thimblerig,
- thimblerigging,
- time killer,
- time waster,
- tortoise,
- trifle,
- trifler,
- truant,
- waiter on Providence,
- welsh,
- welsher
- beggar
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- a pauper who lives by begging
- reduce to beggary
- be beyond the resources of; "This beggars description!" related words >
- Arab,
- Bowery bum,
- almsman,
- almswoman,
- asker,
- baffle,
- bankrupt,
- beach bum,
- beachcomber,
- beggarly fellow,
- blighter,
- bloke,
- bo,
- budmash,
- bum,
- bummer,
- cadger,
- caitiff,
- casual,
- challenge,
- chap,
- charity case,
- coupon clippers,
- deadbeat,
- defy,
- derelict,
- devil,
- dogie,
- down-and-out,
- down-and-outer,
- drifter,
- drone,
- drunkard,
- fellow,
- freeloader,
- gamin,
- gamine,
- good-for-naught,
- good-for-nothing,
- guttersnipe,
- guy,
- hardcase,
- hobo,
- homeless waif,
- human wreck,
- idle rich,
- idler,
- impoverish,
- indigent,
- landloper,
- lazzarone,
- leisure class,
- loafer,
- losel,
- lounge lizard,
- lowlife,
- lumpen proletariat,
- man,
- mauvais sujet,
- mean wretch,
- mendicant,
- mendicant friar,
- mendicant order,
- moocher,
- mucker,
- mudlark,
- no-good,
- nonworker,
- panhandler,
- parasite,
- pauper,
- pauperize,
- pauvre diable,
- penniless man,
- person,
- petitioner,
- piker,
- pilgarlic,
- poor creature,
- poor devil,
- poor man,
- poorling,
- prayer,
- ragamuffin,
- ragman,
- ragpicker,
- reduce,
- rentiers,
- rounder,
- sad case,
- sad sack,
- schnorrer,
- scrounger,
- ski bum,
- skid-row bum,
- spiv,
- sponge,
- sponger,
- starveling,
- stiff,
- stray,
- street Arab,
- street urchin,
- suitor,
- sundowner,
- suppliant,
- supplicant,
- supplicator,
- surf bum,
- swagman,
- swagsman,
- tatterdemalion,
- tennis bum,
- the unemployable,
- the unemployed,
- tramp,
- truant,
- turnpiker,
- urchin,
- vag,
- vagabond,
- vagrant,
- vaurien,
- waif,
- waifs and strays,
- want,
- wastrel,
- welfare client,
- worthless fellow,
- wretch
- bummer
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- a bad reaction to a hallucinogenic drug
- an experience that is irritating or frustrating or disappointing; "having to stand in line so long was a real bummer" related words >
- Arab,
- Bowery bum,
- adverse circumstances,
- adversity,
- affliction,
- aggravation,
- annoyance,
- bandit,
- beach bum,
- beachcomber,
- beggar,
- beggarly fellow,
- blight,
- blighter,
- bo,
- brigand,
- budmash,
- bum,
- cadger,
- caitiff,
- care,
- coupon clippers,
- cross,
- curse,
- depredator,
- derelict,
- devil,
- difficulties,
- difficulty,
- dogie,
- downer,
- drifter,
- drone,
- drunkard,
- forager,
- freebooter,
- freeloader,
- gamin,
- gamine,
- good-for-naught,
- good-for-nothing,
- guttersnipe,
- hard knocks,
- hard life,
- hard lot,
- hardcase,
- hardship,
- hobo,
- homeless waif,
- human wreck,
- idle rich,
- idler,
- irritation,
- landloper,
- lazzarone,
- leisure class,
- loafer,
- looter,
- losel,
- lounge lizard,
- lowlife,
- lumpen proletariat,
- mauvais sujet,
- mean wretch,
- mendicant,
- mendicant friar,
- mendicant order,
- moocher,
- mucker,
- mudlark,
- no-good,
- nonworker,
- panhandler,
- parasite,
- pauvre diable,
- piker,
- pilgarlic,
- pillager,
- plight,
- plunderer,
- poor creature,
- poor devil,
- predicament,
- pressure,
- ragamuffin,
- ragman,
- ragpicker,
- rentiers,
- rigor,
- rounder,
- sad case,
- sad sack,
- schnorrer,
- scrounger,
- sea of troubles,
- ski bum,
- skid-row bum,
- spiv,
- sponger,
- stiff,
- stray,
- street Arab,
- street urchin,
- stress,
- stress of life,
- sundowner,
- surf bum,
- swagman,
- swagsman,
- tatterdemalion,
- tennis bum,
- the unemployable,
- the unemployed,
- tramp,
- trial,
- tribulation,
- trouble,
- troubles,
- truant,
- turnpiker,
- urchin,
- vag,
- vagabond,
- vagrant,
- vale of tears,
- vaurien,
- vicissitude,
- waif,
- waifs and strays,
- wastrel,
- worthless fellow,
- wretch
- parasite
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- an animal or plant that lives in or on a host (another animal or plant); it obtains nourishment from the host without benefiting or killing the host related words >
- adherent,
- algae,
- appendage,
- attendance,
- attendant,
- autophyte,
- barnacle,
- bean,
- beat,
- bedbug,
- beggar,
- bloodsucker,
- body of retainers,
- bracken,
- brown algae,
- buff,
- bummer,
- cadger,
- cat flea,
- cavaliere servente,
- chigoe,
- climber,
- cockroach,
- cohort,
- conferva,
- confervoid,
- cortege,
- coupon clippers,
- court,
- courtier,
- crab,
- creeper,
- dangler,
- deadbeat,
- dependent,
- diatom,
- disciple,
- dog flea,
- drone,
- entourage,
- fan,
- fern,
- flea,
- flunky,
- follower,
- following,
- freeloader,
- fruits and vegetables,
- fucus,
- fungus,
- grapevine,
- grayback,
- green algae,
- gulfweed,
- hanger-on,
- henchman,
- herb,
- heterophyte,
- homme de cour,
- hyena,
- idle rich,
- idler,
- ivy,
- jackal,
- jigger,
- kelp,
- laze,
- leech,
- legume,
- leisure class,
- lentil,
- liana,
- lichen,
- liverwort,
- lounge lizard,
- louse,
- lumpen proletariat,
- mendicant,
- mite,
- mold,
- moocher,
- mosquito,
- moss,
- mushroom,
- nit,
- nonworker,
- panhandler,
- parasitic plant,
- parasitize,
- partisan,
- pea,
- perthophyte,
- phytoplankton,
- planktonic algae,
- plant families,
- public,
- puffball,
- pulse,
- pursuer,
- pursuivant,
- red algae,
- red bug,
- rentiers,
- retinue,
- roach,
- rockweed,
- rout,
- rust,
- sand flea,
- saprophyte,
- sargasso,
- sargassum,
- satellite,
- scrounge,
- scrounger,
- sea lentil,
- sea moss,
- sea wrack,
- seaweed,
- sectary,
- shadow,
- smell-feast,
- smut,
- spiv,
- sponge,
- sponger,
- stooge,
- successor,
- succulent,
- sucker,
- suite,
- supporter,
- tagtail,
- tail,
- the unemployable,
- the unemployed,
- tick,
- toadstool,
- train,
- trainbearer,
- vermin,
- vetch,
- vine,
- votary,
- ward heeler,
- weevil,
- wood tick,
- wort,
- wrack
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