English

Alternative forms

• mouch

Verb

mooch ‎(third-person singular simple present mooches, present participle mooching, simple past and past participle mooched)

1. (Britain) To wander around aimlessly, often causing irritation to others.
2. To beg, cadge, or sponge; to exploit or take advantage of others for personal gain.
   • 1990, p. 26, Michael L. Frankel & friends, Gently with the Tides, Center for Marine Conservation, Washington (DC), ISBN 1879269-007, p. 26,

     I managed to mooch my way up the journalistic ladder to the next, more impressive level of “Interviewer”.

3. (Britain) To steal or filch.
   • 1922, J. S. Fletcher, The Middle of Things, ch. 16,

     These chaps that mooch about, as Hyde was doing, pick up all sorts of odds and ends. He may have pinched them from a chemist’s shop.

Derived terms

• mooch off

Translations

Noun

mooch ‎(plural mooches)

1. One who mooches; a moocher.

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