Dictionary entry

Sponginess

Pronunciation

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Definition

sponge /spʌndʒ / n ၁။ [C] ေရျမႇဳပ္(ပင္လယ္သတၱဝါ)။ ၂။ (က) [C](ေဆးေၾကာတိုက္ခြၽတ္ရာတြင္သံုးေသာ) ေရျမႇဳပ္။ a bath sponge (ie for washing one's body in the bath) ❍ clean the sink with a sponge. (ခ) [U] ရာဘာေရျမႇဳပ္။ a chair filled with sponge. ၃။ [C, U] = SPONGE CAKE: a chocolate sponge. v ၁။ (က) ~ sb/oneself/sth (down) (ေရျမႇဳပ္စသည္ျဖင့္) ေရဖတ္တိုက္သည္။ sponge a wound ❍ He sponged down the car with clean water. (ခ) ~ sth (off/out/up) (ေရျမႇဳပ္ စသည္ျဖင့္) တို႔၍၊ တိုက္၍ ဖယ္ရွားသည္။ sponge (out) a stain in the carpet ❍ sponge (up) wine that has been spilt. ၂။ (sth) (from/off sb) ; ~(on sb) ( imfml derog ) ကပ္ရပ္ေနသည္။ ကပ္ေျမႇာင္သည္။ She sponges (meals) all the time. ❍ James is always sponging off/on his friends. ❏ sponge bag n ( Brit ) သြားပြတ္တံ၊ သြားတိုက္ေဆး စသည္ ထည့္ရန္ ခရီးေဆာင္အိတ္ငယ္။ ❏ sponge cake n [ C, U ] ကိတ္မုန္႔ပြ၊ ကိတ္ပြ။ ❏ sponge pudding n [C, U] မုန္႔ခ်ဳိေပါင္း။ မုန္႔ခ်ဳိပြ။ ❏ sponger n ကပ္ရပ္စားသူ။ ကပ္ပါးရပ္ပါး။ ❏ spongy adj ပြရြေပ်ာ့အိေသာ။ spongy moss. sponginess n [U] ❏ throw in the sponge/towel [ IDM ] ( infml ) လက္ေျမႇာက္ အ႐ံႈးေပးသည္။

Examples

  1. You need to give your whole body a thorough sponge.