Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - mooch
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Mooch
mooch
(mooches, mooching, mooched) • mooch around If you mooch around or mooch about a place, you move around there slowly with no particular purpose. (in BRIT, also use mooch about) Andrew was left to mooch around the house on his own... He was awake at 3am, mooching about in the darkness. = wander around PHRASAL VERB: V P n, V P
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verb Etymology: probably from French dialect muchier to hide, lurk Date: 1851 intransitive verb 1. to wander aimlessly ; amble; also sneak 2. beg, sponge transitive verb 1. to take surreptitiously ; steal 2. beg, sponge • ~er noun ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
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v. colloq. 1 intr. loiter or saunter desultorily. 2 tr. esp. US a steal. b beg. Derivatives moocher n. Etymology: ME, prob. f. OF muchier hide, skulk ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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1. ам. разг. лентяйничать, слоняться (также mooch about, mooch around) 2. жить на чужой счет, паразитировать to mooch on one's friends —- "сосать" ("доить") своих друзей 3. выпрашивать, попрошайничать he mooched a cigarette from me —- он у меня выцыганил сигарету 4. воровать ...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
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v.; coll. 1) лентяйничать, слоняться; прогуливать (уроки) (тж. mooch about/around); Theres nothing to do in this town except mooch around (the streets). 2) жить на чужой счет; попрошайничать 3) воровать ...Англо-русский словарь
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~ v AmE informal to get something by asking someone to give you it, instead of paying for it; cadge (He tried to mooch a drink from me.) mooch around also mooch about BrE phr v informal to walk around without any purpose ("Where've you been?" "Oh, just mooching around.") ...Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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- 1440, "pretend poverty," from O.Fr. muchier "to hide, sulk, conceal," of uncertain origin, perhaps from Celt. or Gmc. Or the word may be a variant of M.E. mucchen "to hoard, be stingy" (1303), probably originally "to keep coins in one's nightcap," from mucche "nightcap," from M.Du. muste "cap, nightcap," ult. from M.L. almucia, of unknown origin. Sense of "sponge off others" first recorded 1857. ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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