sponge bath | you wash your body with a sponge or washcloth instead of in a bathtub |
sponge poriferan parazoan | primitive multicellular marine animal whose porous body is supported by a fibrous skeletal framework, usually occurs in sessile colonies |
sponge genus | a genus of Porifera |
glass sponge | a siliceous sponge (with glassy spicules) of the class Hyalospongiae |
sponge cloth | any soft porous fabric (especially in a loose honeycomb weave) |
sponge mop | a wet mop with a sponge as the absorbent |
toilet bag sponge bag | a waterproof bag for holding bathrooms items (soap and toothpaste etc.) when you are travelling |
sponge cake | a light porous cake made with eggs and flour and sugar without shortening |
Madeira cake Madeira sponge | a rich sponge cake with close texture, intended to be eaten with a glass of Madeira wine |
Victoria sandwich Victoria sponge | a cake consisting of two layers of sponge cake with a jelly filling in between |
leech parasite sponge sponger | a follower who hangs around a host (without benefit to the host) in hope of gain or advantage |
quick study sponge | someone able to acquire new knowledge and skills rapidly and easily, she soaks up foreign languages like a sponge |
luffa dishcloth gourd sponge gourd rag gourd strainer vine | any of several tropical annual climbers having large yellow flowers and edible young fruits, grown commercially for the mature fruit's dried fibrous interior that is used as a sponge |
loofah vegetable sponge Luffa cylindrica | the loofah climber that has cylindrical fruit |
loofa loofah luffa loufah sponge | the dried fibrous part of the fruit of a plant of the genus Luffa, used as a washing sponge or strainer |
common morel Morchella esculenta sponge mushroom sponge morel | an edible and choice morel with a globular to elongate head with an irregular pattern of pits and ridges |
sponge | a porous mass of interlacing fibers that forms the internal skeleton of various marine animals and usable to absorb water or any porous rubber or cellulose product similarly used |
sponge down | wash with a sponge |
drop out give up fall by the wayside drop by the wayside throw in throw in the towel quit chuck up the sponge | give up in the face of defeat of lacking hope, admit defeat, In the second round, the challenger gave up |
sponge down sponge off | clean with a sponge, by rubbing |
sponge on | apply with a sponge, The painter sponged on his washes |
sponge | gather sponges, in the ocean |
sponge | wipe with a sponge, so as to clean or moisten |
sponge | soak up with a sponge |
sponge up | absorb as if with a sponge, sponge up the spilled milk on the counter |
sponge | erase with a sponge, as of words on a blackboard |
mooch bum cadge grub sponge | ask for and get free, be a parasite |