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moocher, moucher Now slang and dial.|ˈmuːtʃə(r)|
Forms: (9 mochar, mutcher, mocher), 7, 9– moucher, 9– moocher.
[f. mooch v. + -er1.]
†1. ? An offender against. Obs. rare—1.
1671J. Brydall Law Eng. relating to Nobility & Gent. (1675) Pref., If High-Shoon Common-wealths-men, and other Mouchers against Honor, Decency, and Order should continue as they were wont before the Re-Erecting of this Honorable Court, I should be sorry.
2. dial. One who ‘mooches’ or plays truant from school, esp. in order to gather blackberries; hence a gatherer of blackberries.
1870Lady Verney Lettice Lisle x. 117 What a moucher you are, David! Allays after them blackberries. 1876J. H. Ewing Jan of Windmill vi, ‘I played moocher’, he continued—by which he meant truant.
3. slang. One who loiters about, a loafer; also in various specific applications (see quots.).
1862Mayhew Lond. Labour [IV.] 282/1 They loiter about the streets and public-houses to steal from drunken persons, and are called ‘Bug-hunters’ and ‘mutchers’. 1878Jefferies Gamekeeper at H. vii. 142 There are three kinds of poachers, the local men, the raiders,..and the ‘mouchers’—fellows..who occasionally loiter along the roads and hedges, picking up whatever they can lay hands on. 1880― Gt. Estate 89 Broad burdock leaves, which the mouchers put on the top of their baskets to shield their freshly gathered watercresses from the sunshine. 1905J. K. Jerome Idle Ideas xi, The Whitechapel hawker or the moocher of the Paris boulevard. 1906Daily News 17 Dec. 6 The moucher—the man who lives by gathering watercress, blackberries, nuts, mushrooms [etc.].
4. slang. A beggar, a cadger; one who begs or scrounges. Cf. mooch n. 3, v. 6.
1857‘Ducange Anglicus’ Vulgar Tongue 13 Moucher, beggar. 1899‘J. Flynt’ Tramping with Tramps iv. 395 Moocher, a beggar. This word is the generic term for tramps in England. 1925Amer. Speech I. 152/1 ‘Mooch’ is a gem of a word, with its expressive agent-noun ‘moocher’, the name for a person who sponges on another. 1931‘D. Stiff’ Milk & Honey Route ix. 96 A moocher may do all the things a panhandler does, only he draws smaller dividends because he lacks the salesman's poise. 1933‘G. Orwell’ Down & Out xxxii. 236 Some of the cant words now used in London... A moocher—one who begs outright, without pretence of doing a trade. 1962K. Orvis Damned & Destroyed xi. 75 You moocher, you—don't you respect a lady's natural curiosity? Be nice to me. After all, I'm paying for this party. |