mooch
verb/muːtʃ/
/muːtʃ/
(informal)Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they mooch | /muːtʃ/ /muːtʃ/ |
| he / she / it mooches | /ˈmuːtʃɪz/ /ˈmuːtʃɪz/ |
| past simple mooched | /muːtʃt/ /muːtʃt/ |
| past participle mooched | /muːtʃt/ /muːtʃt/ |
| -ing form mooching | /ˈmuːtʃɪŋ/ /ˈmuːtʃɪŋ/ |
- [intransitive] + adv./prep. (British English) to walk slowly with no particular purpose; to be somewhere not doing very much
溜达；闲逛 - He's happy to mooch around the house all day.
他就愿意整天在家里闲待着。 - We had coffee then mooched down to the beach.
我们喝了咖啡，然后就去海滩了。
- He's happy to mooch around the house all day.
- [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） - He's always mooching off his friends.
他总是向朋友讨钱花。
- He's always mooching off his friends.
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.