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Mooch

noun
1.
Someone who mooches or cadges (tries to get something free).  Synonyms: cadger, moocher, scrounger.
verb
1.
Ask for and get free; be a parasite.  Synonyms: bum, cadge, grub, sponge.



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"Mooch" Quotes from Famous Books



... so low an' wretched, as I mooch about the deck, That I'm ripe for jumpin' over — an' I wish there was a wreck! We are driven to New Zealand to be shot out over there — Scarce a shillin' in our pockets, nor a decent rag to wear, With the everlastin' worry lest we don't get into graft — There is little left to ...
— In the Days When the World Was Wide and Other Verses • Henry Lawson

... crazy! he sing to keep courage up. I sing sometime to keep courage up ven I think of la belle France—of Paris! Bootiful story, Monsieur Paydook! vrai bootiful story! Mooch oblege, mooch oblege!" ...
— The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 5, No. 1, January, 1852 • Various

... it vas most sad, for der symbtoms dot came vas all dose of strychnine. He vas doubled into big knots, und den undoubled, und den redoubled mooch worse dan pefore, und he frothed. I vas mit him, saying, "Reingelder, dost dou know me?" but he himself, der inward gonsciousness part, was peyond knowledge, und so I know he vas not in bain. Den he wrop himself oop in von dremendous knot und den he died—all alone mit me in Uraguay. ...
— Life's Handicap • Rudyard Kipling



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