Mooch

Quick meaning: Mooch is a verb meaning (British) To wander around aimlessly, often causing irritation to others.

Meaning

(British) To wander around aimlessly, often causing irritation to others.

More Meanings

1. To beg, cadge, or sponge; to exploit or take advantage of others for personal gain.
2. (transitive, chiefly British) To steal or filch.
3. (UK) An aimless stroll.
4. One who mooches; a moocher.
5. Pronunciation spelling of much
6. (US politics, slang, humorous) Synonym of Scaramucci (“unit of time”).

Example Sentences

Near-synonyms: loiter, roam

I'm tired of driving you all over and sick of you living in my house, mooching my food.

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

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.

Word Forms

• mooches
• mooching
• mooched

Synonyms for mooch

Depending on context, synonyms include leech, beg, blag, cadge, mump, scrounge.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include cadge, sponge, grub, knock about, pootle, grobble.

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