mooching

Meaning of mooching

verb, gerund or present participle
  1. loiter in a bored or listless manner.
    he just mooched about his bedsit
  2. 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:

beg

Meaning take and use (something belonging to someone else) with the intention of returning it:

borrow

Meaning seek to obtain (something, typically food or money) at the expense or through the generosity of others or by stealth:

scrounge

Meaning get by asking or begging:

bum

Meaning wipe or clean with a wet sponge or cloth:

sponge

Meaning ask for or obtain (something to which one is not strictly entitled):

cadge

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

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