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Definition of Mooching
1. mooch [v] - See also: mooch
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mooching
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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