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Definition of Moochers
1. moocher [n] - See also: moocher
Lexicographical Neighbors of Moochers
Literary usage of Moochers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Mining Engineers' Handbook by Robert Peele (1918)
"As a precaution the шш may employ trained men, called moochers, to watch the
sampling; and t sampling company may lock sample-hoppers and erect wire screens ..."
2. A Vagabond Journey Around the World: A Narrative of Personal Experience by Harry Alverson Franck (1911)
"I passed the time of day with any number of these roadsters,— they call them "
moochers " in the British Isles. Some were sauntering almost aimlessly along ..."
3. The Copepodologist's Cabinet: A Biographical and Bibliographical History by David M. Damkaer (2002)
"For the millennium was showing alarming signs of departure. The moochers howled
because, after all, they had to work. The industrious complained that as ..."
4. In Darkest England and the Way Out by William Booth (1890)
"There are a good lot of " moochers " go to Casual Wards, but there are large
numbers of men who only want work ..."
5. The Economic Review by Christian Social Union (Great Britain), Oxford University Branch (1895)
"... executive had had to fight against during the past twelve months had been that
of cleansing the association of a body of brandy-shifters and moochers. ..."
6. A Warwickshire Word-book: Comprising Obsolescent and Dialect Words by G. F. Northall (1896)
"... or -moochers = blackberries in Glouc., Here- fords., and the West, and the Glouc.
Gloss, preserves the following rude distich : 'Moocher, moocher, ..."
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