{"def":{"short":"a seed-picker (as the crow), i.e., (figuratively) a sponger, loafer (specially, a gossip or trifler in talk)","long":["picking up seed",["of birds, especially of the crow or daw that picks up grain in fields"],"metaphorically",["lounging about the market place and picking up a substance by whatever may chance to fall from the loads of merchandise","hence, beggarly, abject, vile, (a parasite)","getting a living by flattery and bufferoonery","an empty talker, babbler"]]},"deriv":"from G4690 and G3004","pronun":{"ipa":"spɛr.moˈlo.ɣos","ipa_mod":"spe̞r.mowˈlow.ɣows","sbl":"spermologos","dic":"sper-moh-LOH-gose","dic_mod":"spare-moh-LOH-gose"},"see":["G3004","G4690"]}