mooch
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Is mooch a Scrabble word?
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Definition
verb (English)
1. (British) To wander around aimlessly, often causing irritation to others.Examples: "Near-synonyms: loiter, roam"; "These chaps that mooch about, as Hyde was doing, pick up all sorts of odds and ends. He may have pinched them from a chemist’s shop."; "You have to be alone to mooch about properly. Other people will just get in the way and be all energetic about things. So wait until they've gone, make a cup of tea and then let the mooching commence."Britishcolloquial
2. (transitive, chiefly British) To steal or filch.Examples: "I'm tired of driving you all over and sick of you living in my house, mooching my food."Synonyms: steal, abduct, abstract, appropriate, bag, bandit, bash and grab, boneBritishcolloquialtransitive
noun (English)
1. (UK) An aimless stroll.Examples: "Jack wouldn't be arriving for another ten minutes, so I had a mooch around the garden."; "At the secondary school where I normally work as a librarian, I take key workers’ and other children on a “nature mooch”. We undull our senses."UKcolloquial
noun (English)
1. (US politics, slang, humorous) Synonym of Scaramucci (“unit of time”).Examples: "If we take Scaramucci’s 10-day figure to be the standard of measurement — one “mooch” — then Pruitt survived an amazing 50.3 mooches, even while enduring more than a dozen scandals, any one of which would have doomed a lesser man."; "Scaramucci, who jokingly measures time in mooches, a unit equal to approximately 11 days, said he doesn’t necessarily like the version of himself he often sees on screen, but feels director Andrew J. Moscato was accurate."; "I understand it's her job. But I would point out to people that Stephanie has lasted way more “Mooches” than me."Synonyms: ScaramucciUScolloquialhumorousslang
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