Library / English Dictionary

MOOCH

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone who mooches or cadges (tries to get something free)

Synonyms:

cadger; mooch; moocher; scrounger

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("mooch" is a kind of...):

beggar; mendicant (a pauper who lives by begging)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "mooch"):

schnorrer; shnorrer ((Yiddish) a scrounger who takes advantage of the generosity of others)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Ask for and get free; be a parasite

Synonyms:

bum; cadge; grub; mooch; sponge

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Hypernyms (to "mooch" is one way to...):

obtain (come into possession of)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "mooch"):

freeload (live off somebody's generosity)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

moocher (someone who mooches or cadges (tries to get something free))

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