OXFORD 9000
📚 verb • entry_id 28728

mooch

/muːt͡ʃ/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
vagar
To wander around aimlessly, often causing irritation to others.
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.
gorrear
To beg, cadge, or sponge; to exploit or take advantage of others for personal gain.
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 70,0…