Definition of Mooching

1. Verb. (present participle of mooch) ¹

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Definition of Mooching

1. mooch [v] - See also: mooch

Lexicographical Neighbors of Mooching

moo-cows
moo-moo
moo cow
moo cows
moo goo gai pan
moob
moobs
mooch
moocha
moochas
mooched
moocher
moochers
mooches
mooching (current term)
mood
mood-congruent hallucination
mood-incongruent hallucination
mood disorders
mood message
mood ring
mood rings
mood swing
mooder
mooders
moodied
moodier
moodies
moodiest

Literary usage of Mooching

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Our Animal Friends: An Illustrated Monthly Magazine (1894)
"Well, " Come here, Bess," says I, but sorra a fut Bess would come, but kept mooching and tooting like a mole. She was a little, broad, thick dog, ..."

2. A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon & Cant: Embracing English, American, and Anglo by Albert Barrère, Charles Godfrey Leland (1890)
"He may while away the tedium of the tramp by mooching. mooching is the art of getting what things you want to eat at different houses. ..."

3. Note-book Kept by Thomas Lechford, Esq., Lawyer, in Boston, Massachusetts by Thomas Lechford, James Hammond Trumbull (1885)
"... whipped this said boy for mooching the next morning after the whipping he came voluntarily & shewed this inform' his body to see how his said Master had ..."

4. Transactions and Collections of the American Antiquarian Society by American Antiquarian Society (1885)
"... first moneth last was twelve moneth the said Marmaduke having whipped this said boy for mooching the next morning after the whipping he came voluntarily ..."

5. Transactions and Collections of the American Antiquarian Society by American Antiquarian Society (1885)
"... first moneth last was twelve moneth the said Marmaduke having whipped this said boy for mooching the next morning after the whipping he came voluntarily ..."

6. Archaeologia Americana: Transactions and Collections of the American by American Antiquarian Society (1885)
"... the said Marmaduke having whipped this said boy for mooching the next morning after the whipping he came voluntarily & shewed this inform' his body to ..."

7. Robbery Under Arms: A Story of Life and Adventure in the Bush and in the by Rolf Boldrewood (1889)
"... and meaning another—ain't as safe a game, let alone the profits of it, as mooching about cattle duffing and being lagged in the long run all the same. ..."

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