Mooch vs Moo - What's the difference?
mooch | moo |
(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,
(British) To steal or filch.
* 1922 , , The Middle of Things , ch. 16,
One who mooches; a moocher.
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 pronoun moo is
we.mooch
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* (l)Verb
(es)- I managed to mooch my way up the journalistic ladder to the next, more impressive level of “Interviewer”.
- 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.
