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Mooch vs Moocha - What's the difference?

mooch | moocha |

As nouns the difference between mooch and moocha

is that mooch is one who mooches; a moocher while moocha is a loincloth.

As a verb mooch

is to wander around aimlessly, often causing irritation to others.

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.

    • moocha

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A loincloth.
  • * 1885 , H. Rider Haggard, , Cassel and Company (1907), page 48:
  • *:Umbopa did so, at the same time slipping off the long military great coat which he wore, and revealing himself naked except for the moocha round his centre and a necklace of lions' claws.
  • * 1908 , Douglas Blackburn, Leaven: A Black and White Story
    • Bacheta took from his moocha a thick wooden peg that was a pin holding the moocha round his loins.