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Mooch vs Gooch - What's the difference?

mooch | gooch |

As a verb mooch

is (british) to wander around aimlessly, often causing irritation to others.

As a noun mooch

is one who mooches; a moocher.

As a proper noun gooch is

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mooch

English

Alternative forms

* (l)

Verb

(es)
  • (British) To wander around aimlessly, often causing irritation to others.
  • To beg, cadge, or sponge; to exploit or take advantage of others for personal gain.
  • * 1990 , p. 26, Michael L. Frankel & friends, Gently with the Tides , Center for Marine Conservation, Washington (DC), ISBN 1879269-007, p. 26,
    • I managed to mooch my way up the journalistic ladder to the next, more impressive level of “Interviewer”.
  • (British) To steal or filch.
  • * 1922 , , The Middle of Things , ch. 16,
    • 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.

    Derived terms

    * mooch off

    Noun

    (es)
  • One who mooches; a moocher.

    • gooch

    English

    Noun

    (gooches)
  • (slang) The perineum.
  • * 2008 , Blueprint , Issues 266-269, unknown page:
    • For those unfamiliar, Johnson helpfully informs us that 'it's for your gooch , your Biffin's bridge, your perineum (the bit on your bum that after days in the saddle starts to chaffe).'
  • * 2012 , James T Medak, My, What Ticklish Feet You Have , The Nazca Plains Corporation (2012), ISBN 9781610982924, page 59:
    • The feather traced the crevices in Dan's ball-skin. It danced lightly around his gooch (it really liked that, staying there for a whole ten minutes). It traced along the inside of his thigh, and then lightly licked the base [of] Dan's cock.
  • * 2013 , Geoffrey Girard, Project Cain , Simon & Schuster BFYR (2013), ISBN 9781442476967, unnumbered page:
    • His whole life Albert Fish had this habit/fascination with jamming sewing needles up into his gooch , that weird little area between your ass and balls.

    Synonyms

    * See also .