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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.
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Mooch
is always a great word to know.
So is navel-gazing. Does it mean:
| something of cheap or inferior quality; junk |
| excessive absorption in self-analysis or focus on a single issue |
noun
7.
Also, mooch·er. a person who mooches.
Also, mouch.
Origin:
1425–75; late Middle English, apparently variant of Middle English michen < Old French muchier to skulk, hide
1425–75; late Middle English, apparently variant of Middle English michen < Old French muchier to skulk, hide
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Word Origin & History
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" (c.1300), probably originally "to keep coins in one's nightcap," from mucche "nightcap," from M.Du. muste "cap, nightcap,"
EXPANDult. from M.L. almucia, of unknown origin. Sense of "sponge off others" first recorded 1857.
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Slang Dictionary
mooch definition[mutʃ]
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