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spongebag en · NOUN

Meanings

1. (alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of sponge bag.
   alt of sponge bag
   • I had an aunt who used to stand on her spongebag in a cupboard under the stairs during bad storms and very much admired her combination of scientific knowledge with strong common sense.[…]So in future I hope to have the moral courage to act as instinctively as a fish and as wisely as an aunt, merely substituting gumboots, as being a shade more manly than spongebags. 1964, Punch, page 166:
   • “A fine example our father set,” Celestria scoffed, spraying on perfume before putting it in her spongebag.[…]She placed her spongebag on top of the clothes that lay in a messy heap in the suitcase. 2007, Santa Montefiore, Sea of Lost Love, Touchstone, published 2008, →ISBN, page 143:
   • He hung his jacket in the wardrobe, extracted the timetables, wedged them under his arm, slung a bathrobe over his shoulder, collected his spongebag and, mumbling something about taking a bath in the morning, shuffled into the bathroom and locked the door. 1999, John le Carré [pen name; David John Moore Cornwell], Single & Single, Hodder and Stoughton, →ISBN:

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Relateds

spongebags · spongebag pants · spongebag trousers