单词 | mooch |
释义 | mooch I. intransitive verb 1. dialect chiefly Britain 2. < the crowd mooched away in sullen disinterest — Bruce Marshall > < hateful to be without a garden; there is nowhere to sit or mooch — Gladys B. Stern > < mooched forward on to the grass where he sat down … and emitted two short, gruff barks — Mervyn Wall > < the destroyer mooched around all over the channel for two weeks — Irwin Shaw > specifically < heard I had been mooching round his house and spying — John Buchan > 3. < mooched on relatives for a living so he could devote full time to his art > < a rich young man addicted to mooching from his friends — Newsweek > 4. West < the angler may spin or mooch on the same trip, as fancy dictates — Fisherman's Encyc. > transitive verb 1. < mooch an apple when the huckster isn't looking > 2. < a dark-eyed urchin came up and tried to mooch a cigarette — Newsweek > < forest ponies … line the roads on Sundays to mooch tea buns from picnickers — A.J.Liebling > II. 1. slang 2. slang a. b. < suckers or mooches … who have in the past bought blue-sky stocks — Industrial Digest > |
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