0 present participle of sponge
1 to get money, food, etc. from other people, especially in order to live without working:
sponging off the state
2 to rub something or someone with a wet sponge or cloth, especially to clean it, him, or her:
This is also true for the "sponging" behavior of dolphins.
Thus sponging may be a mostly female activity, but most females do not carry sponges.
There is no comic opera or grand opera that it does not afflict with its sponging.
Liverpool was in the wrong place at the wrong time, and its misfortune was compounded by ill repute, a people supposedly strike-prone, sponging and self-pitying.
Therefore, one decides whether one still wants to be a member of a club, where all the members are sponging on one all the time.
Because these treatments are water based they can be removed by spillage or by sponging.
They might decide not to bother to claim the benefit, feeling that it would seem as though they were sponging.
Far from employees, it will be employers who will be sponging off a dependency culture.
