mooch

verb · noun · determinerA2

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Động từ

verb

V_es/s

mooches

V_ing/Gerund

mooching

V_ed/pp

moochedmouch

1.
(British, colloquial)To wander around aimlessly, often causing irritation to others.
Near-synonyms: loiter, roam
2.
(colloquial)To beg, cadge, or sponge; to exploit or take advantage of others for personal gain.
Đồng nghĩa: leech, beg, blag, bum, cadge, leech, mooch, mump, scrounge, scunge, sponge, tap, wheedle
3.
(British, colloquial, transitive)(transitive, chiefly British) To steal or filch.
Đồng nghĩa: steal, abduct, abstract, appropriate, bag, bandit, bash and grab, bone, boost, burgle, burglarize, borrow, cheat, chore, commandeer, confiscate, convert, cop, cozen, crib, embezzle, filch, fleece, flog, gaffle, gilravage, half-inch, heave, heist, jack, kidnap, knock off, kipe, kyper, liberate, lift, loot, make off with, mill, misappropriate, mooch, moonlight requisition, nick, nip, own, peculate, pickpocket, pilfer, pinch, pillage, pirate, plunder, poach, pocket, prig, purloin, raid, ransack, rape, relieve, reave, rip, rip off, rob, run off with, snag, snatch, sniggle, snitch, swindle, swipe, thieve, walk off with

Danh từ

noun

Plural noun:

moochesmouch

1.
(UK, colloquial)An aimless stroll.
Jack wouldn't be arriving for another ten minutes, so I had a mooch around the garden.
2.
(colloquial)One who mooches; a moocher.
Đồng nghĩa: bloodsucker, bludger, bummer, freeloader, free rider, gadfly, leech, mooch, moocher, parasite, scrounge, scrounger, scunge, smell-feast, sponge, sponger, sucker, trencher mate
3.
(US, colloquial, humorous, slang)(US politics, slang, humorous) Synonym of Scaramucci (“unit of time”).
Đồng nghĩa: Scaramucci

determiner

1.
(alt of, colloquial, pronunciation spelling)Pronunciation spelling of much

Từ liên quan

Đồng nghĩa

leech begblagbumcadge mump scrounge scunge sponge tap wheedle steal abduct abstractappropriatebag banditbash and grabbone boost

Cùng gốc / liên quan

mooch offmoocher

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Nguồn gốc từ

From Middle English moochen, mouchen (to pretend poverty), from Old French muchier, mucier, mucer (to skulk, hide, conceal), from *mukkjan (to hide, conceal oneself), from Proto-Germanic *mukjaną, *mūkōną (to hide, ambush), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)mūg-, *(s)mewgʰ- (swindler, thief).