Sorn

Part of speech: verb

Definitions

1. In Scottish usage, to stay in someone else's home and live at their expense without paying for food or lodging
2. A Scottish term meaning to freeload on a host, taking food and shelter from others without contributing anything
3. To sponge off others by moving into their house and living there for free, a practice long associated with Scotland

Etymology: "Sorn" is a Scottish verb meaning to live as an unwelcome guest, sponging off a host, and its origin is uncertain. The most commonly proposed source is "sojourn," which would make sense of the sense of staying on in someone else's home, but the link rests on the resemblance of form and meaning rather than documented evidence of a shift from one word to the other. Since the word's history is largely unrecorded, the connection should be taken as a plausible guess rather than a established fact.

Synonyms: sponge, freeload