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Mel Brooks, who had an office adjacent to Grant’s at Universal, and who began with a slobbering fan-like admiration for him, after a few lunches together dismissed him as a schnorrer—Yiddish for freeloader, beggar, cheapskate—and ceased taking his phone calls.
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Joseph Epstein, WSJ, 16 Oct. 2020
For ancient Greek and Roman satirists, the term denoted what many of us now assume to be the figurative meaning: a sponger, a schnorrer, a person dining at someone else’s table, at someone else’s expense.
—Jerome Groopman, The New Yorker, 5 Dec. 2022
Joseph Epstein, WSJ, 16 Oct. 2020
For ancient Greek and Roman satirists, the term denoted what many of us now assume to be the figurative meaning: a sponger, a schnorrer, a person dining at someone else’s table, at someone else’s expense.
—Jerome Groopman, The New Yorker, 5 Dec. 2022
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“Schnorrer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/schnorrer. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.
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