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▪ I. mooch, n. slang and dial.|muːtʃ|
Also mouch.
[f. mooch v.]
1. slang. The action of mooching; esp. in phr. on the mooch.
1867Lond. Herald 23 Mar. 221 (Farmer s.v. Moocher) If..asked..what he was doing, he would have said he was on the mouch. 1889J. K. Jerome Three Men in Boat iv, You are doing a mouch round the town.
2. dial. The fruit of the blackberry.
1839Hereford. Gloss. 69 In the Forest of Dean ‘to mooche blackberries’, or simply ‘to mooch’, means to pick blackberries; and blackberries have thus obtained their name of ‘mooches’. 1886Britten & Holland Eng. Plant-n.
3. slang. = moocher 4.
1914Jackson & Hellyer Vocab. Criminal Slang 60 Mooch,..current amongst beggars. A mendicant, an alms solicitor. 1953W. Burroughs Junkie (1972) xiv. 146 Cash was a junk mooch on wheels. He made it difficult to refuse.
▪ II. mooch, mouch, v. Now slang and dial.|muːtʃ|
Forms: 5 mowche, 7, 9 mouche, 7 mootch, 9 mooche, moach, moche, modge, 7– mouch, 8– mooch.
[In 15th and 17th c. mowche, mouche; the senses, closely similar to those of mitch v., suggest that it was adopted from the source of that word (OF. muchier to hide, skulk, etc.) with some dialectal variety of pronunciation.]
†1. intr. ? To act the miser, pretend poverty; = mitch v. 3 b. Obs. rare—1.
c1460Towneley Myst. xxx. 571 The pennys thai powchid and held thaym still; The negons thai mowchid and had no will ffor hart fare.
2. To play truant; esp., in later use, to play truant in order to pick blackberries; hence trans. to pick (blackberries).
1622Mabbe tr. Aleman's Guzman d'Alf. ii. 289 Wee..runne a-mouching eyther to our Aunts house, or our grandfathers, where wee are made much of. 1655tr. Com. Hist. Francion vi. 9 The Eagle more mindfull of Prey than Honour, did one day mootch from the Thunder which lame Vulcan had made..for Almighty Iupiter. 1787Grose Provinc. Gloss., Mooch, to play the truant. 1839[see mooch n. 2]. 1887F. T. Havergal Herefordsh. Gloss. 23 ‘Where is ―?’ ‘Oh, he's gone mouching’.
3. intr. To loaf, skulk, sneak, loiter, or hang about; to slouch along.
1851Mayhew Lond. Labour I. 424/1 These hedge fellows are slow and dull; they go mouching along as if they were croaking themselves. 1879G. F. Jackson Shropsh. Word-bk. 285 ‘'E's no good, 'e does nuthin' but moach about from mornin' tell neet’. 1882Ogilvie, Mouch,..to live a sort of semi-vagabond life, selling water-cresses and other wild produce, and without a fixed place of abode. 1888‘R. Boldrewood’ Robbery under arms xxii. II. 15 And I don't see but what bushranging..ain't as safe a game,..as mooching about cattle duffing. 1889J. K. Jerome Three Men in Boat vii, All the inhabitants..come out and mouch round the lock with their dogs, and flirt, and smoke.
transf.1881Daily Tel. 20 Oct., They found the vessel able to do little more than drift. After mooching along in barge-fashion awhile, they sighted a steamer.
4. trans. To pilfer, steal.
1862Mayhew Lond. Labour [IV.] 418/2, I don't mean to say that if I see anything laying about handy that I don't mouch it (i.e. steal it). 1880Jefferies Hodge & M. II. 178 To mouch a good armful of fresh-cut clover. 1888Daily Tel. 27 Nov. 5/2 They..would hotly assert that they never mouched a penny from anybody.
5. intr. ‘To sponge, to slink away and allow others to pay for your entertainment’ (Barrère & Leland Dict. Slang).
1857‘Ducange Anglicus’ Vulgar Tongue 13 Mouch, v., to go about sponging on your friends. 1975D. Ramsay Descent into Dark ii. 69, I mooch these days because I've given it [sc. smoking] up.
6. trans. To beg, cadge, scrounge.
1899‘J. Flynt’ Tramping with Tramps iv. 395 Mooch, to beg. 1914Sat. Even. Post 4 Apr. 10/2 And State Street, Chicago, 60. He sure mooched that stem. No nickels. Dimes, buddie... He can beg coin. 1931‘D. Stiff’ Milk & Honey Route iii. 33 Loan your safety razor to a bum and he will mooch you for half your blades. 1933‘G. Orwell’ Down & Out xxxiv. 254 Every night I mooched tanners for my kip off of the students. 1953W. Burroughs Junkie (1972) xiv. 147 He would mooch junk off Old Ike, who couldn't turn down anyone sick. 1954G. Kersh in D. Knight 100 Yrs. Sci. Fiction (1969) 228, I came across a student, mooching drinks, an educated man with no place to sleep. 1972D. Morrell First Blood i. iii. 17 First thing I know, a bunch of your friends will show up, mooching food, maybe stealing, maybe pushing drugs.
Add:[3.] For ‘to slouch along’ read: to slouch along or off.
1966‘J. Hackston’ Father clears Out 49 They both stood up,..and mooched off down the back. 1977Belfast Tel. 17 Jan. 6/7 So around about 11 pm..I mooched off to bed.
7. intr. Western U.S. and Canad. To fish by mooching (sense 2); occas. trans., to use (a small fish) as bait for a large fish.
1947C. Haury in H. W. Howard Salmon Fishing on Puget Sound 86 To mooch in a given area successfully it is necessary to fish it often and do a lot of experimenting to find how deep it is. 1961Sun (Vancouver) 17 Aug. 23/3 Most anglers troll, rather than mooch or strip-cast with light, sporty but riskier tackle. 1963Ibid. 16 Feb. 17/1 Kelly started mooching a herring, caught himself a 10-pound chinook salmon. 1971W. Hillen Blackwater River iv. 36 Mooching between the big island and the west end..I found several char holes with fish. 1980D. Nuttall Mooching i. 15 Those who have been mooching unsuccessfully frequently remove their leader and weights and put on a two-ounce sliding weight, [etc.]. |