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Mooch

verb
1.
Ask for and get free; be a parasite.  Synonyms: bum, cadge, grub, sponge.






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"Mooch" Quotes from Famous Books



... of folks called Meynell," she said with more or less of the patois, which I was beginning to understand; "but I haven't got mooch memory for nee-ams. I might have heard o' such folks, and ...
— Birds of Prey • M. E. Braddon

... down oi goes plump into t' water. Vor all at once we had coomed upon a lot o' rocks covered wi' a sort of slimy stuff, and so slippery as you could scarce keep a footing on 'em. Oi picks myself up and vollers him. By this toime, maister, oi war beginning vor to think as there warn't so mooch vun as oi had expected in this koind o' business. Oi had been working two hours loike a nigger a-carrying tubs. Oi had had moi ear pretty nigh cut off, and it smarted wi' the salt water awful. Oi war wet ...
— Through the Fray - A Tale of the Luddite Riots • G. A. Henty

... dells you vas qveer; Not mooch pigger round as a goot glass off beer, Mit a bare-footed hed, and nose but a schpeck, A mout dot goes most to der pack of his neck, And his leedle pink toes mid der rest all combine To gife sooch a charm ...
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Words linked to "Mooch" :   obtain, sponge, schnorrer, mendicant, beggar, cadge, shnorrer, freeload



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