SPONGING HOUSE

Definition: SPONGING HOUSE

SPONGING HOUSE

1. (Eng. Law), a bailiff's or other house in which debtors are put before being taken to jail, or until they compromise with their creditors. At these houses extortionate charges are commonly made for food, lodging, etc.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Synonyms within Context: SPONGING HOUSE

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Prison	Noun: prison, prison house; jail, gaol, cage, coop, den, cell; stronghold, fortress, keep, donjon, dungeon, Bastille, oubliette, bridewell, house of correction, hulks, tollbooth, panopticon, penitentiary, guardroom, lockup, hold; round house, watch house, station house, sponging house; station; house of detention, black hole, pen, fold, pound; inclosure; isolation (exclusion); penal settlement, penal colony; bilboes, stocks, limbo, quod; calaboose, chauki, choky, thana; workhouse.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Anagrams: SPONGING HOUSE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "e-g-g-h-i-n-n-o-o-p-s-s-u"
	-4 letters: epigonous, espousing, phoniness, pishogues.
	-5 letters: enginous, epigonus, ginsengs, guessing, gunships, hognoses, housings, ionogens, isogones, nighness, nonissue, openings, opsonins, penguins, pensions, pishoges, pishogue, puniness, punishes, singsong, snooping, snuggies, soughing, sphinges, sponging, spongins, sponsion, spoonies, spooning, spousing, sunshine, unhinges, unsonsie.
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