0 someone who tries to get things, especially money or food, by asking for them instead of buying them or working for them:
I'm not a scrounger, I'm a working man.
Unemployed people are described as lazy, scroungers, living off the taxpayer, etc.
I was made to feel like a scrounger - like someone begging for help they had no right to.
his plans to crack down on a hard core of benefit scroungers
