A person under the patronage or protection of another; a dependant; (sometimes) spec. a feudal vassal or retainer. Formerly also: †a person who…

A parasite.

A term of contempt (applied variously) for: a slanderer; a cheat, an impostor; a glutton.

A parasite, sponger.

One who scents out where feasting is to be had; one who comes uninvited to share in a feast; a parasite, a greedy sponger. Now archaic (very common…

A person who lives at the expense of another, or of society in general; esp. (in early use) a person who obtains the hospitality or patronage of…

hanger-on n. A follower or dependant (familiarly and often disparagingly).

An especially wretched or pathetic parasite (parasite, n. 1a).

waiter at the table: a parasite. Obsolete. rare.

= lick-platter n.

A contemptuous term for a dependant or hanger-on.

One that constantly accompanies or follows another like a shadow. A parasite, toady; also (= Latin umbra) a companion whom a guest brings without…

A parasite.

A parasite; a toady.

(a) A fawning parasite, a sycophant, toady; also attributive. (b) One who robs or swindles another under the guise of friendship.

cant. Perhaps: a sycophant, a parasite. Cf. barnacle, n.2 3b. Also as a more general term of abuse. Obsolete.

One who licks the spigot; a contemptuous name for a tapster or drawer; also, a parasite.

One who frequents a patron's table; a parasite, dependent, hanger-on.

A worthless and impecunious person who gains a precarious living by sponging on others, by executing disreputable commissions, cheating at play, and…

a parasite, a sponger.

Hence in transferred and allusive uses, with various shades of meaning. An attendant, follower, companion, assistant: almost always contemptuous…

= lick-dish, n.

A hanger-on, a parasite.

One who coshers, or lives by coshering.

A needy, disreputable parasite; one who makes a living by sponging on others, cheating at play, swindling, or the like; a sharper. = shark, n.2

a parasite, a sycophant.

A dependant or client (client, n. 1a). Obsolete.

(more fully tantony pig), the smallest pig of a litter; also figurative said of one who very closely or obsequiously follows another: cf. context…

That follows slavishly or as a sycophant. led-captain, a hanger-on, dependant, parasite. So also led-†eater, †led friend, led poet.

One who lives meanly at another's expense; a parasite, a sponge.

One who or that which fetches, in various senses of the verb. Also in phrase fetcher and carrier, and in combination, as water-fetcher, etc.

In extended use: an opportunistic or sycophantic supporter; a hanger-on.

(see 4b).

A follower or dependant; a hanger-on.

a worm with a yellow tag or tail; also, a parasite, a hanger-on.

One who meanly lives at the expense of others; a parasite, a sponger.

a parasite.

a parasite.

One who lives at the expense of another; one who draws profit or extorts subsistence from some source; U.S. slang, a sponger, parasite.

Originally: a person who takes full advantage of the free food or drink available at a public occasion. Later more generally: a person who partakes…

A parasite or hanger-on; a loafer. Now often in weakened sense. Australian and New Zealand.

One who gatecrashes parties, a ‘free-loader’.

Kenyan English. A person who partakes of or benefits from something without being entitled to it or giving anything in return; a freeloader, a…