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moocher

/mooch/US // mutʃ //UK // (muːtʃ) //

揩油者,揩油的人,乞丐,揩油鬼

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Definitions

v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to borrow without intending to return or repay it.
    • : to get or take without paying or at another's expense; sponge: He always mooches cigarettes.
    • : to beg.
    • : to steal.
v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to skulk or sneak.
    • : to loiter or wander about.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : Also moocher. a person who mooches.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Examples

  • Race is also embedded in the whole set of presumptions about the 47 percent and the “moocher class.”

  • And the comparisons will show what they've shown since the beginning of the republic, that the real moocher class is down South.

  • In other words, conservatives, millions more Latinos are poised to become card-carrying members of the good old moocher class!

  • Across the lawn, a man walked by with the words “retired moocher” printed on the front of his shirt.

  • Might an ineffectual-seeming Obama be enough to make moocher-loathing Mitt seem palatable to independents?

  • The ol moocher sure has got em trained, Iron Hair, said Raftery.

  • The inmates were principally in pairs; each moocher had his Judy (wife), and each little kid had his little Moll (sister).

  • I know what they wants—they think I'm a purty good moocher, 'n' they'll make sinkers out o' me.

  • I discovered that what we would call a Tramp over here was a Moocher over there.

  • The English moocher has to resort to his "gag," and his "lurks" are almost innumerable.