## Etymology
Agent noun from 'scrounge' + '-er'; 'scrounge' is early 20th-century military slang, a variant of dialectal 'scrunge' ('to steal'), of obscure origin.

## AI Etymology
Scrounger is from agent noun from 'scrounge' + '-er'; 'scrounge' is early 20th-century military slang, a variant of dialectal 'scrunge' ('to steal'), of obscure origin. Older glosses in the chain include "scrounge", "-er", "scrunge", and "to steal", which help explain the semantic range of the modern word. Morphologically, scrounger is best read as compound and uncertain formation, yielding an English noun shaped by both form history and later usage. In current English it functions as a noun, with the sense "a person who obtains things by begging, borrowing, or cadging". related forms include scrounge and scrounging. The result is an English noun whose etymology preserves the older forms while supporting the word's specialized modern meaning.

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