/ · 1894 Brewer’s · P · Parasite
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(Greek, para sītos, eating at another’s cost). A plant or animal that lives on another; hence a hanger-on, who fawns and flatters for the sake of his food.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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