moochverb
uk/muːtʃ/us/muːtʃ/mooch verb (MOVE SLOWLY)
[ I usually + adv/prep ] informal to walk or do things slowly and without much purpose:
disapproving Stop mooching (about/around) in your room and do something useful!
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Moving gently on foot
- amble
- blow
- gently
- meander
- mince
- mincing
- mosey
- plod
- potter
- process
- promenade
- putter
- saunter
- slink
- slunk
- stroll
- stroller
- tiptoe
- wander
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Useless and futile
mooch verb (GET)
[ I or T ] US slang to borrow from people or ask them to give you things without paying for them or intending to return them:
You're old enough to get a job and stop mooching off your family.
He mooched a few beers from me as we watched the game.
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Making appeals & requests
- a cry for help idiom
- appellate
- application
- ask for sb
- beseech
- besought
- bum
- cri de coeur
- crowdsource
- freeloader
- gateway
- go over sb's head idiom
- hit
- hit sb up
- I'll thank you to do sth idiom
- implore
- pester
- petition
- request
- scrounge
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moochnoun [ S ]
uk/muːtʃ/us/muːtʃ/UK informala period of time spent walking around slowly and without much purpose:
I'm going for a mooch round the shops (= to look at what is there, not to buy a particular thing).
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Useless and futile
- a mug's game idiom
- adrift
- aimless
- airy-fairy
- be at a loose end idiom
- flaccid
- fool's errand
- for the hell of it idiom
- frivolous
- fruitless
- moon around
- motiveless
- negate
- no good idiom
- nugatory
- unwieldy
- use
- useless
- vain
- vainly
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