mooching
Meaning of mooching
- loiter in a bored or listless manner.
he just mooched about his bedsit
- ask for or obtain (something) without paying for it.
a bunch of your friends will show up, mooching food
I'm mooching off you all the time
late Middle English (in the sense ‘to hoard’): probably from Old French muchier (Anglo-Norman muscher ) ‘hide, skulk’: compare with mitch. Current senses date from the mid 19th century.
Information about mooching
- It is a verb.
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Hyphenation of mooching
mooching
- It consists of 1 syllables and 8 chars.
- mooching is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable
mooching synonyms
Meaning ask for food or money as charity:
Meaning take and use (something belonging to someone else) with the intention of returning it:
Meaning seek to obtain (something, typically food or money) at the expense or through the generosity of others or by stealth:
Meaning get by asking or begging:
Meaning wipe or clean with a wet sponge or cloth:
Meaning ask for or obtain (something to which one is not strictly entitled):
Words that rhyme with mooching
hing, aahing, ahing, blahing, fatwahing, hoorahing, hurrahing, huzzahing, obeahing, oompahing, rahing, Ahgwahching, Beeching, Busching, Ching, Fasching, Frenching, Kuching, Peiching, Stellenbosching, accroaching, aching, antilynching, antipoaching, appeaching, approaching, arching, areaching, attaching, avalanching, avouching, baching, backaching, backscratching, backstitching, batching, beaching, bedrenching, belching, bellyaching, benching, bescorching, beseeching, besmirching, besmutching, bewitching, bioleaching, birching, birdcatching, birdwatching