mooch

verb
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(informal)
Verb Forms
present simple I / you / we / they mooch
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he / she / it mooches
🔊/ˈmuːtʃɪz/
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past simple mooched
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past participle mooched
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-ing form mooching
🔊/ˈmuːtʃɪŋ/
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  1. [intransitive] + adv./prep. (British English) to walk slowly with no particular purpose; to be somewhere not doing very much溜达;闲逛 synonym potter
    • He's happy to mooch around the house all day.他就愿意在家里闲待着。🔊🔊
    • We had coffee then mooched down to the beach.我们喝了咖啡,然后下到海滩。
  2. [intransitive, transitive] mooch (something) (off somebody) (North American English) to get money, food, etc. from somebody else instead of paying for it yourself白吃(或用等);要别人白给(金钱、食物等) synonym cadge
    • He's always mooching off his friends.他总是向朋友讨钱花。🔊🔊
  3. Word Originlate Middle English (in the sense ‘to hoard’): probably from Old French muchier (Anglo-Norman muscher) ‘hide, skulk’. Current senses date from the mid 19th cent.