mooch
verb /muːtʃ/
/muːtʃ/
(informal)Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they mooch | /muːtʃ/ /muːtʃ/ |
| he / she / it mooches | /ˈmuːtʃɪz/ /ˈmuːtʃɪz/ |
| past simple mooched | /muːtʃt/ /muːtʃt/ |
| past participle mooched | /muːtʃt/ /muːtʃt/ |
| -ing form mooching | /ˈmuːtʃɪŋ/ /ˈmuːtʃɪŋ/ |
- [intransitive] + adv./prep. (British English) to walk slowly with no particular purpose; to be somewhere not doing very much synonym potter
- He's happy to mooch around the house all day.
- We had coffee then mooched down to the beach.
- [intransitive, transitive] mooch (something) (off somebody) (North American English) to get money, food, etc. from somebody else instead of paying for it yourself synonym cadge
- He's always mooching off his friends.
Word Originlate Middle English (in the sense ‘to hoard’): probably from Old French muchier (Anglo-Norman muscher) ‘hide, skulk’. Current senses date from the mid 19th cent.