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mooch

  [mooch] Slang.
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–verb (used with object)
1. to borrow (a small item or amount) without intending to return or repay it.
2. to get or take without paying or at another's expense; sponge: He always mooches cigarettes.
3. to beg.
4. to steal.
–verb (used without object)
5. to skulk or sneak.
6. to loiter or wander about.
–noun
7. Also, moocher. a person who mooches.
Also, mouch.

Origin:
1425–75; late ME, appar. var. of ME michen < OF muchier to skulk, hide
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mooch   (mōōch)   
v.   mooched, mooch·ing, mooch·es

v.   tr.
  1. To obtain or try to obtain by begging; cadge. See Synonyms at cadge.
  2. To steal; filch.
v.   intr.
  1. To get or try to get something free of charge; sponge: lived by mooching off friends.
  2. To wander about aimlessly.
  3. To skulk around; sneak.
n.  
  1. One who begs or cadges; a sponge.
  2. A dupe, as in a confidence game.

[Middle English mowchen, probably from Old French muchier, to hide, skulk.]
mooch'er n.
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mooch 
1440, "pretend poverty," from O.Fr. muchier "to hide, sulk, conceal," of uncertain origin, perhaps from Celt. or Gmc. Or the word may be a variant of M.E. mucchen "to hoard, be stingy" (1303), probably originally "to keep coins in one's nightcap," from mucche "nightcap," from M.Du. muste "cap, nightcap," ult. from M.L. almucia, of unknown origin. Sense of "sponge off others" first recorded 1857.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Language Translation for : mooch
Spanish: dar vueltas, deambulardar vueltas, deambular,
German: herumhängen,
Japanese: ぶらつく
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