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Moocher vs Mooched - What's the difference?

moocher | mooched |

As a noun moocher

is a person having a tendency to repeatedly ask help of others, especially if they are making little effort to help themselves usually used as a pejorative.

As a verb mooched is

(mooch).

moocher

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A person having a tendency to repeatedly ask help of others, especially if they are making little effort to help themselves. Usually used as a pejorative.
  • * 2012 , The Economist, September 22nd, CNN’s woes: Unbiased and unloved
    • When says that 47% of Americans are moochers , or Barack Obama says that entrepreneurs didn’t build their own businesses, partisan viewers crave a partisan response.

    Synonyms

    * sponger

    mooched

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (mooch)

    • 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.