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单词 mooch
释义 mooch
I. \ˈmüch\ verb
(-ed/-ing/-es)
Etymology: probably from French dialect muchier to hide, lurk
intransitive verb
1. dialect chiefly Britain : to absent oneself : play truant
2. : to move slowly or apathetically : wander aimlessly : amble, saunter
 < 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 : slink
 < heard I had been mooching round his house and spying — John Buchan >
3. : to take without giving : impose on another's hospitality or generosity : sponge, cadge
 < 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 : to troll (as for salmon) with a spinner or spoon
 < the angler may spin or mooch on the same trip, as fancy dictates — Fisherman's Encyc. >
transitive verb
1. : to take surreptitiously : make off with : sneak, steal
 < mooch an apple when the huckster isn't looking >
2. : to get by coaxing or wheedling : cadge, beg
 < 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. noun
(-es)
1. slang : an act or instance of mooching : prowl, slouch; specifically : a jazz dance of the 1920s characterized by sensuous hip jerking and knee shivering
2. slang
 a. : moocher
 b. : a customer looking for bargains; specifically : an inexperienced stock speculator
  < suckers or mooches … who have in the past bought blue-sky stocks — Industrial Digest >
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