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Definition of Mooch
1. Noun. Someone who mooches or cadges (tries to get something free).
Generic synonyms: Beggar, Mendicant
Specialized synonyms: Schnorrer, Shnorrer
Derivative terms: Cadge, Cadge, Scrounge, Scrounge
2. Verb. Ask for and get free; be a parasite.
Generic synonyms: Obtain
Specialized synonyms: Freeload
Derivative terms: Bum, Cadger, Moocher, Sponge, Sponger
Definition of Mooch
1. Verb. To wander around aimlessly, often causing irritation to others. ¹
2. Verb. To beg, cadge, or sponge; to exploit or take advantage of others for personal gain. ¹
3. Verb. (British) To steal or filch. ¹
4. Noun. One who mooches; a moocher. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Mooch
1. to obtain without paying [v -ED, -ING, -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mooch
Literary usage of Mooch
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon & Cant: Embracing English, American, and Anglo by Albert Barrère, Charles Godfrey Leland (1890)
"mooch (common), the robbers' mooch, is that peculiar well- known step or striding
... On the mooch, vide To mooch. mooch, mouch, to (general), to sponge, ..."
2. The Witches of New York by Q. K. Philander Doesticks (1859)
"You will have two wifes and mooch kindes (children) in der ... mit der wife vot
you shall have der first dime, but not so mooch happy und ..."
3. Nonsense: Or Hits and Criticisms on the Follies of the Day by Mark Mills Pomeroy, Marcus Mills (1870)
"Yen he vas un fine leedle poy, fat, shust like un leedle pig, he had so mooch
worms ash no poy never had, and it dakes more as zwei barrels of goot lager ..."
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