- Transliteration: Spermologos

- Phonetic: sper-mol-og'-os

- Definition:

1. picking up seed

a. of birds, esp. of the crow or daw that picks up grain in fields

2. metaph.

a. lounging about the market place and picking up a substance by whatever may chance to fall from the loads of merchandise

b. hence, beggarly, abject, vile, (a parasite)

c. getting a living by flattery and bufferoonery

d. an empty talker, babbler

- Origin: from G4690" class="dictionary-topic-link">G4690 and G3004" class="dictionary-topic-link">G3004

- TDNT entry: None

- Part(s) of speech: Adjective

- Strong's: From G4690" class="dictionary-topic-link">G4690 and G3004" class="dictionary-topic-link">G3004; a seed picker (as the crow) that is (figuratively) a sponger loafer (specifically a gossip or trifler in talk): - babbler.