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单词 mooch
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mooch
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To mooch is to take advantage of other people's generosity without giving anything in return. If you constantly mooch rides from your friend, she's going to get tired of agreeing to drive you around.
When you mooch food from your neighbors — showing up every night at dinnertime, or appearing uninvited at their family barbecues — you help yourself to free meals. A person in the habit of doing this is also called a mooch. The word's original definition, "pretend poverty," might stem from the Middle English word mucchen, "to be stingy," or literally, "to keep coins in one's nightcap."
WORD FAMILY
mooch: mooched, moocher, mooches, mooching+/moocher: moochers
USAGE EXAMPLES
Davis and her sisters mooched off the families of friends, dumpster-dived, and stole.
The New Yorker(Dec 11, 2016)
My sister has been letting her lazy, spineless boyfriend mooch off her.
Slate(Nov 07, 2016)
My nephews are either in jail or mooching off the rest of the family.
Slate(Oct 26, 2016)
1v ask for and get free; be a parasite
Syn|Hypo|Hyper
bum, cadge, grub, sponge
freeload
live off somebody's generosity
obtain
come into possession of
2n someone who mooches or cadges (tries to get something free)
Syn|Hypo|Hyper
cadger, moocher, scrounger
schnorrer, shnorrer
(Yiddish) a scrounger who takes advantage of the generosity of others
beggar, mendicant
a pauper who lives by begging
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