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Definition of Mooches
1. mooch [v] - See also: mooch
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mooches
Literary usage of Mooches
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Uncivilized Races of Men in All Countries of the World: Being a by John George Wood (1883)
"The mooches exhibit neither of these qualities, but act in a way that exactly
... This is exactly what the mooches have expected, and they flay the dead ..."
2. A Dictionary of English Plant-names by James Britten, Robert Holland (1886)
"... forest of Dean to mooche blackberries, or 'simply to mooch, means to pick
blackberries, and blackberries have thus obtained there the name of mooches. ..."
3. Publications by English Dialect Society (1893)
"... Glouc., and Mushes, Dcv., are quoted as being similarly applied to the fruit,
which is also known as mooches in the Forest of Dean. See Hal., sub. Mich. ..."
4. A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Obsolete Phrases, Proverbs by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1850)
"... Forest of Dean to mooche blackberries, or simply to mooch, meansto pick
blackberries, and blackberries have thus obtained there the name of mooches," ..."
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