| mooch Mar 5th 2013, 01:02 | | | | Line 6: | Line 6: | | | A (mooch) is a MooseCrank. Crankers and Moochers usually posse together. They both mosy around quite often. These are both dangerous creatures | | A (mooch) is a MooseCrank. Crankers and Moochers usually posse together. They both mosy around quite often. These are both dangerous creatures | | | | | | | − | ===Pronunciation=== | + | Pronunciation: Mooch Sounds like it spells. | | − | * {{IPA|/muːtʃ/}} | | | − | * {{audio|en-us-mooch.ogg|Audio (US)}} | | | − | *: {{rhymes|uːtʃ}} | | | | | | | | | ===Verb=== | | ===Verb=== |
Latest revision as of 01:02, 5 March 2013 [edit] English [edit] Alternative forms A (mooch) is a MooseCrank. Crankers and Moochers usually posse together. They both mosy around quite often. These are both dangerous creatures Pronunciation: Mooch Sounds like it spells. mooch (third-person singular simple present mooches, present participle mooching, simple past and past participle mooched) - (UK) To wander around aimlessly, often causing irritation to others.
- To beg, cadge, or sponge; to exploit or take advantage of others for personal gain.
- 1990, p. 26, Michael L. Frankel & friends, Gently with the Tides, Center for Marine Conservation, Washington (DC), ISBN 1879269-007, p. 26,
- I managed to mooch my way up the journalistic ladder to the next, more impressive level of "Interviewer".
- (UK) To steal or filch.
- 1922, J. S. Fletcher, The Middle of Things, ch. 16,
- 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.
[edit] Derived terms [edit] Translations beg, cadge, or sponge; to exploit or take advantage of others for personal gain. mooch (plural mooches) - One who mooches; a moocher.
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