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mooch 中文解釋 wordnet sense Collocation Usage Collins Definition
Verb
/mo͞oCH/,
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mooches, 3rd person singular present; mooched, past participle; mooched, past tense; mooching, present participle;
  1. 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
  2. Loiter in a bored or listless manner
    • - he didn't want them mooching around all day
Noun
  1. A beggar or scrounger
    • - the mooch who got everything from his dad
  1. moocher: someone who mooches or cadges (tries to get something free)
  2. ask for and get free; be a parasite
  3. Mutts is a daily comic strip created by Patrick McDonnell in 1994 based on the day-to-day adventures of two house pets: a dog named Earl and a cat named Mooch. Earl and Mooch interact with each other, their human owners, and a large cast of neighborhood animals.
  4. (Mooching) BookMooch is an international, on-line book exchange community founded by John Buckman in 2006. Membership, which has grown to around 74,000 in over 90 countries , is open to anyone and is free. There is heavy community participation in its running and organisation. ...
  5. One who mooches; a moocher; To wander around aimlessly,often causing irritation to others; To beg, cadge, or sponge; to exploit or take advantage of others for personal gain; To steal or filch
  6. (Mooching) Quite simply begging, door to door, by men on tramp (qv). Would sometimes offer to do odd-jobs in return for food.
  7. (Mooching) living off someone else’s earnings (usually parents).
  8. (mooching) Players killing critters (with the help of higher level chars) that they are not meant to be able to defeat ontheir own (without that higher level help). ...
  9. A term that telemarketers use to describe a victim, particularly a naive customer who is easily influenced and manipulated by the sales rep when closing the sale.
  10. to beg; to ask for something; to benefit from the work of others.
  11. Term telemarketing scammers commonly use to describe their victims.
  12. A term used by timeshare sales people to describe prospective buyers who are attending a sales presentation only for the gift, with no intention of even considering a purchase. This is one of the more flattering terms (relatively speaking). ...
  13. An individual who asks for a free game or prize. It is also used to describe someone who watches others play, but does not play themselves or asks a lot of questions with no intention of playing the game. Sometimes used as an insult between carnies to connote cheapness.
  14. Mooching was developed to drift a weighted bait (usually herring).   Using this method, you let the lure to near the bottom, reel up a few feet & wait for the wave motion to slightly move the bait, or in the absence of that then raise & lower the rod tip  to create the swimming illusion of the ...
  15. To beg or to sponge. (The first recorded usage of this term was in 1851, and originated from French dialect “muchier” which meant to hide or to lurk.)
  16. One who knows little or nothing about purchasing, financing, or insuring a car and really doesn’t care to learn.