Mooch

Definition: Mooch

Mooch

Verb

1. Ask for and get free; be a parasite.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "mooch" was first used: 1440. (references)

Synonyms: Mooch

Mooch Goes to Hollywood (1971)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Hang on Mooch (reference)

• Life Without Mooch (reference)

• Missing Mooch (reference)

• Mooch (reference)

• Mooch and Me (reference)

  (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Expressions using "mooch": mooch about ♦ mooch along ♦ mooch around. Additional references.

Albanian

vjedh (cop, Frisk, hook, lift, nobble, peculate, pilfer, pinch, prig, purloin, Rob, salvage, scrounge, snitch, steal, take away, thieve, walk off with), vidhem (abscond, slink, slip out), vërtitem (circle, dance, flitter, flutter, gyrate, loiter, mill, move, move about, Potter, revolve, roll, turn, turn round, wheel, whirl round), lyp (ask, beg, cadge, mump, need, plead). (various references)

Arabic 

‏تسكع (gad about, hang about, hang around, idling, linger, loaf, loiter, lounge, meander, mess around, mosey, muck about, perambulate, perambulation, potter, putter, range, roam, slop, slouch, traipse, tramp), ‏سرق (convey, crib, crook, filch, hook, lift, misappropriate, nick, nobble, pick, pinch, plunder, purloin, rip off, rob, sack, sneak, steal, swipe, thieve, walk off with), ‏أنسل خلسة (slide, slink). (various references)

Bulgarian 

шляя се (dally, dawdle, fool about, fool around, gallivant, hang about, hang around, idle, loaf, lollop, meander, mess about, mess around, moon about, mosey, saunter, screw around, swan around, vagabond), крада (filch, knap, lift, loot, plunder, poach, prig, purloin, rustle, scarp, snitch, steal, thieve, win), задигам (bag, carry away, filch, finger, grab, lift, nip, pinch, prig, run away with, scarp, scrounge, snaffle, sneak, swipe, walk off with), лентяйствувам (goof), изпросвам си. (various references)

Czech

flákat se (bugger, drift, mess around). (various references)

Farsi 

ولگردی کردن (Hull, Loaf, Lout, Tramp, Vagabond), تلکه کردن . (various references)

French

traîner, se glisser, piquer, entrer et sortir en traînant, chiper. (various references)

German

tigern, schnorrer (bum, cadger, scrounger), herumlungern (hang about, hang around, hover about, hover around, idle about, idle around, loaf about, loaf around, loiter, loiter about, loiter around, to hang about, to mooch), abstaubern. (various references)

Greek 

αποκτώ χωρίσ πληρωμή. (various references)

Hebrew 

לשוטט (gallivant, hang about, loiter, meander, perambulate, prowl, range, roam, rove, straggle, traipse, wander). (various references)

Hungarian

ellop (pilfer, prig, purloin, scrounge, snoop, to collar, to filch, to glom, to knock off, to nab, to nick, to purloin, to rob, to sneak, to snoop, to spirit away, to spirit off, to swipe), csavarog (bum, bump around, gallivant, loiter, muck about, to be on the loose, to be on the tramp, to gad, to hobo, to maunder, to muck about, to prowl, to stroll, to trapes, to trollop about, vagabondize), csavargás (hoboism, itineracy, itinerancy, loitering, prowling, roaming, truancy, vagabondage, vagabondism, vagrancy). (various references)

Indonesian

ngadang-adangi (hold up, intercept, waylay). (various references)

Italian

oziare (dally, idle, idle about, laze, laze around, Mike, slouch about, slouch around). (various references)

Manx

croghey mygeayrt. (various references)

Pig Latin

oochmay.(various references)

Portuguese

vadiagem (absenteeism, blackguardism, dawdle, hooliganism, loaf, mike, mugging, truancy, vagrancy). (various references)

Romanian

vagabonda (be on the tramp, bum, hang around, mooch about, rove, run about, straggle, stray), umbla lela (mooch about), umbla fãrã rost (mooch about). (various references)

Russian 

слоняться (dangle around, gallivant, hover about, loaf, lop about, lounge, mosey, muck about, putter about), воровать (cabbage, pilfer, prig, purloin, steal, thieve), лентяйничать (idle), прогуливать (play the wag, play wag, stay out), попрошайничать (cadge, mump, panhandle), попрошайничает попрошайка. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

lunjati (loiter, maroon). (various references)

Spanish

zanganear, vagar a (loiter, meander, rove), sacar de gorra (cadge, scrounge), birlar (bone, knock down, knock off, lift, Nick, nobble, snaffle, sneak, whip). (various references)

Swedish

tigga (beg, cadge, grub, panhandle), smyga sig (sidle, skulk, sneak, steal), slå dank (dawdle, loaf, loiter about, loiter around). (various references)

Thai

เ�"ินเรื่อยเปื่อย (meander), ลักโขมย, ขโมย (cop, lurcher, steal, thief, thieve). (various references)

Turkish

beleşe konmak (sponge up), aptal aptal dolaşmak, aşırmak (abstract, bag, cop, crib, filch, help oneself to, hoist, hook, make off with, pass over, pilfer, prig, purloin, scrounge, snaffle, snitch, steal, walk off with, whip), çalmak (abstract, adopt, bag, beat, beat out, blow, chime, cop, crib, defalcate, filch, finger, grind, grind out, heist, hijack, hoist, hook, hoot, incline, jangle, jingle, knelt, knock, knock off, lift, make off with, nobble, peal, pilfer, pinch, play, plunder, rap, render, ring, rustle, scrounge, sneak, snitch, sound, steal, strike, swipe, tend, thieve, toll, twang, verge, verge into, verge on, walk away with, walk off with, whip). (various references)

Ukrainian

красти (appropriate, borrow, cabbage, gyp, nim, plunder, poach, purloin, snip, steal, swipe, thieve), ледарювати (dawdle, fribble, frivol, idle, laze, loaf, mess about, mess around, poke, potter about, potter around, twiddle one's thumbs), паразитувати (parasite). (various references)

muchier. (various references)

muste. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "mooch": mooched, moocher, moochers, mooches, mooching. (additional references)

Words ending with "mooch": smooch. (additional references)

Words containing "mooch": smooched, smooches, smooching, smoochy. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Mooch" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Amorocho, Booch, kooch, Maconchy, Mauch, Miochol, moac, moc, moch, moche, Mochi, mocho, moci, mocz, mogh, Mogok, moik, mok, molook, Moochie, mook, moosh, mooshe, mooth, morch, mosotho, mouch, mouche, mough, Muhoho, Nohc, nooch, nouch, Oocch, Oochi, Oohh, Oohhh, ooohh, ooosh, oroch. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: coho, homo.

-2 letters: coo, mho, moc, moo, ohm, oho, ooh.

-3 letters: hm, ho, mo, oh, om.

+1 letter: chromo, moloch, smooch.

+2 letters: chromos, hommock, molochs, mooched, moocher, mooches, schmoos, smoochy.

+3 letters: chromous, hemocoel, homeotic, hommocks, hormonic, logomach, micromho, moochers, mooching, mouchoir, nonohmic, schmoose, schmooze, smooched, smooches.

+4 letters: checkroom, chromogen, dichotomy, ectomorph, hemocoels, homolytic, homonymic, honeycomb, logomachs, logomachy, lunchroom, matchbook, matchwood, micromhos, monochord, monorchid, mouchoirs, schmoosed, schmooses, schmoozed, schmoozes, schoolman, schoolmen, smooching, urochrome.