Scrounge vs Pilfer - What's the difference?
scrounge | pilfer |
To hunt about, especially for something of nominal value; to scavenge or glean.
* 1965 , (Bob Dylan), (Like a Rolling Stone)
To obtain something of moderate or inconsequential value from another.
As verbs the difference between scrounge and pilfer
is that scrounge is to hunt about, especially for something of nominal value; to scavenge or glean while pilfer is to steal in small quantities, or articles of small value; to practise petty theft.As a noun scrounge
is someone who scrounges; a scrounger.scrounge
English
Verb
(en-verb)- Now you don't seem so proud about having to be scrounging your next meal.
- As long as he's got someone who'll let him scrounge off them, he'll never settle down and get a full-time job.
