G4691Greekspermológos

σπερμολόγος

a seed-picker (as the crow), i.e., (figuratively) a sponger, loafer (specially, a gossip or trifler in talk)

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Detailed Definition

  • 1lounging about the market place and picking up a substance by whatever may chance to fall from the loads of merchandise
  • 2picking up seed
  • 3of birds, especially of the crow or daw that picks up grain in fields
  • 4hence, beggarly, abject, vile, (a parasite)
  • 5getting a living by flattery and bufferoonery
  • 6metaphorically
  • 7an empty talker, babbler

Etymology & Derivation

from g4690 and g3004

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