Mooches vs Looches - What's the difference?

As a verb mooches

is (mooch).

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(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.

* mooch off

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One who mooches; a moocher.

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