Noun: sponge
| Singular | sponge |
| Plural | sponges |
Sample Sentences
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She removed Stranleigh’s coat with a dexterity that aroused his imagination. The elder woman returned with dressings and a sponge, which she placed on a chair. [1913, Robert Barr, chapter 5, in Lord Stranleigh Abroad:]
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After six hours of work I got this amazing sponge with fresh strawberries, crème fraîche, crème chantilly, custard, crumble and meringues, something quite rich and outstanding. [2021 June 10, Marianna Giusti, “Kean Etro: ‘We basically turned paper into trees’”, in Financial Times, London: The Financial Times Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 13 Jun 2021:]
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For this reason, we need to think of our children as sponges of information and watch their sources carefully. We also need to always model appropriate behaviour, as we are a constant source of new information. [2014, Phoeve Hutchison, Are You Listening? Life Is Talking to You!, page 145:]
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The great guns ranged along the deck — each bound fast by its new breechings — with their linstocks and sponges and ladles and rammers, made no idle show of warlike strength. [1923, Charles Boardman Hawes, The Dark Frigate, Chapter 6:]
Nouns inflected like sponge
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle English sponge, from Old English spunge, taken from Latin spongia, from Ancient Greek σπογγιά (spongiá), from σπόγγος (spóngos). Displaced native Old English swamm (“fungus, sponge”). See: Middle English Nouns '
sponge', Old English Nouns '
spunge', Latin Nouns '
spongia', Ancient Greek Nouns '
σπογγιά'.
Verbs referencing "sponge"
Spanish Nouns
esponja, Zulu Nouns
isiponji, Russian Nouns
спонж.