scrounging noun2 •The act of one who scrounges.What mattered to Vincenzo may have been a temporary lack of money (his wild living led him into frequent scroungings for cash; he was a bit of a spendthrift). — 2002 •[in the plural] Material that has been scrounged.Most of them were armed but not wealthy, outfitted in battered leather and the scroungings of a half-dozen battlefields. — 2010 formsscroungings
