Mooch

/ˈmuːt͡ʃ/ · verb

Meaning

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

Definitions by Sense

1. (British) 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.
3. (transitive, chiefly British) To steal or filch.
4. (UK) An aimless stroll.
5. One who mooches; a moocher.
6. Pronunciation spelling of much
7. (US politics, slang, humorous) Synonym of Scaramucci (“unit of time”).

Example Sentences

Near-synonyms: loiter, roam

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.

You have to be alone to mooch about properly. Other people will just get in the way and be all energetic about things. So wait until they've gone, make a cup of tea and then let the mooching commence.

With 79 minutes gone, the most celebrated team of the modern age had been reduced to bunch of mooching, stumbling yellow-shirted spectators.

A handful of camera crews mooched around the entrance to the Giorgio Cini foundation, where a pair of tight-lipped but polite individuals sat before monitors under a gazebo and politely fended off requests for information.

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

Mr. Prince responded on Twitter: “Phony fraud photographers keep mooching me. Why? I changed the game,” he wrote on Wednesday. His Instagram account, which previously had over 70,000 followers, is currently disabled.

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

Synonyms for mooch

Antonyms for mooch

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Word Forms

• mooches
• mooching
• mooched
• mouch

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