Lexicographical Neighbors of Mouching
Literary usage of Mouching
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Publications by English Dialect Society (1893)
"To be sulky or out of temper.—N. & SW (4) n. ' In a mouch,' in a bad temper.
'On the mouch,'gone off mouching.— N. & SW Moucher, Moocher. (i) A truant (AB). ..."
2. Longman's Magazine by Charles James Longman (1898)
"mouching, a form of the same word, is used for playing truant from school; while
blackberries, known too often to village pedagogues as the innocent cause ..."
3. Kipling's Sussex by Robert Thurston Hopkins (1921)
"mouching, a form of the same word, is used for playing truant from school; while
blackberries, known too often to the schoolmaster as the incentive to ..."
4. Unfinished Man: A Scientific Analysis of the Psychopath Or Human Degenerate by Albert Wilson (1910)
"... who, although they purchase his articles because of, the bargains he offers,
yet hate the sight of him because of his mouching habits, having to work ..."
5. A Glossary of Words Used in the County of Wiltshire by George Edward Dartnell, Edward Hungerford Goddard (1893)
"'On the mouch,'gone off mouching.— N. & SW Moucher, Moocher. ... N. & SW (2) A
man who lives by mouching (Gamekeeper at Home, eh. vii). ..."
6. Lancashire Poets: And Other Literary Sketches ; in a Series of Lectures (Dec by Thomas Costley (1897)
"Weep not for me, or pity take, But stick to mouching for my sake. ... I've stuck
to mouching to the last j There is a fine sense of independence in this ..."
7. Publications by English Dialect Society (1893)
"To be sulky or out of temper.—N. & SW (4) n. ' In a mouch,' in a bad temper.
'On the mouch,'gone off mouching.— N. & SW Moucher, Moocher. (i) A truant (AB). ..."
8. Longman's Magazine by Charles James Longman (1898)
"mouching, a form of the same word, is used for playing truant from school; while
blackberries, known too often to village pedagogues as the innocent cause ..."
9. Kipling's Sussex by Robert Thurston Hopkins (1921)
"mouching, a form of the same word, is used for playing truant from school; while
blackberries, known too often to the schoolmaster as the incentive to ..."
10. Unfinished Man: A Scientific Analysis of the Psychopath Or Human Degenerate by Albert Wilson (1910)
"... who, although they purchase his articles because of, the bargains he offers,
yet hate the sight of him because of his mouching habits, having to work ..."
11. A Glossary of Words Used in the County of Wiltshire by George Edward Dartnell, Edward Hungerford Goddard (1893)
"'On the mouch,'gone off mouching.— N. & SW Moucher, Moocher. ... N. & SW (2) A
man who lives by mouching (Gamekeeper at Home, eh. vii). ..."
12. Lancashire Poets: And Other Literary Sketches ; in a Series of Lectures (Dec by Thomas Costley (1897)
"Weep not for me, or pity take, But stick to mouching for my sake. ... I've stuck
to mouching to the last j There is a fine sense of independence in this ..."
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