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Pooched vs Mooched - What's the difference?

pooched | mooched |

As verbs the difference between pooched and mooched

is that pooched is (pooch) while mooched is (mooch).

As an adjective pooched

is (slang) made unusable; broken; buggered.

pooched

English

Adjective

(head)
  • (slang) Made unusable; broken; buggered.

    • Verb

    (head)
  • (pooch)

    • 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.