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To mooch is to get food, money, a ride, or some other thing by asking someone to give it to you, instead of paying. You mooch off a friend; a person who does this a lot is a mooch.
To mooch跟人揩油 is to就是 get food, money, a ride, or some other thing取得食物、金錢、便車，或其他東西，by asking someone to give it to you靠開口請人給你，instead of paying而不是自己付錢。You mooch off a friend你會跟朋友mooch（揩油）；a person who does this a lot常這樣做的人 is a mooch就叫做mooch。
It is informal American English, a little — it suggests you are taking and not giving back.
It is它是 informal American English非正式的美式英語, a little disapproving帶點不以為然—— it suggests意思是暗指 you are taking and not giving back你只拿不還。
Though actually, in British English mooch often means something else: to wander about with no clear plan (mooch around the shops). Same spelling, different habit.
Though actually不過其實，in British English在英式英語裡 mooch often means something elsemooch常常是別的意思: to wander about with no clear plan漫無目的地閒晃 (mooch around the shops在店裡閒逛)。Same spelling拼法一樣, different habit習慣卻不同。
The older story of the word, from Middle English, is about pretending to be poor; before that sits an Old French word for hiding or . Another idea ties it to an old word for hoarding. Scholars do not all walk the same path.
The older story of the word這個字比較早的來歷, from Middle English源自中古英文, is about pretending to be poor跟裝窮有關；before that在那之前 sits an Old French word for hiding or skulking則是一個古法文字，意思是躲藏或鬼鬼祟祟。Another idea另一種說法 ties it to an old word for hoarding把它連到一個古字，意思是囤積。Scholars do not all walk the same path學者們的看法並不一致。
組成From Middle English moochen, mouchen, “to pretend poverty,” from Old French muchier, mucier, mucer, “to skulk, hide, conceal,” from a Frankish root about hiding. Dictionaries also note an older English relative, dialect mitch. Another proposed path is Middle English mucchen, “to hoard, be stingy.”
原始詞典資料7 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
moochverb詞源 1/ˈmuːt͡ʃ/
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To wander around aimlessly, often causing irritation to others.
- Near-synonyms: loiter, roam
- 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.
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To beg, cadge, or sponge; to exploit or take advantage of others for personal gain.
- I managed to mooch my way up the journalistic ladder to the next, more impressive level of “Interviewer”.
- Mr. Prince responded on Twitter: “Phony fraud photographers keep mooching me. Why? I changed the game,” he wrote on Wednesday. His Instagram account, which previously had over 70,000 followers, is currently disabled.
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To steal or filch.
- I'm tired of driving you all over and sick of you living in my house, mooching my food.
moochnoun詞源 1/ˈmuːt͡ʃ/
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An aimless stroll.
- Jack wouldn't be arriving for another ten minutes, so I had a mooch around the garden.
- At the secondary school where I normally work as a librarian, I take key workers’ and other children on a “nature mooch”. We undull our senses.
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One who mooches; a moocher.
- "No! I'm sick of you being a mooch, bumming off me all the time! I'm going to London for a few days."
moochnoun詞源 3/ˈmuːt͡ʃ/
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slanggovernmentpoliticsSynonym of Scaramucci (“unit of time”).
- If we take Scaramucci’s 10-day figure to be the standard of measurement — one “mooch” — then Pruitt survived an amazing 50.3 mooches, even while enduring more than a dozen scandals, any one of which would have doomed a lesser man.
- Scaramucci, who jokingly measures time in mooches, a unit equal to approximately 11 days, said he doesn’t necessarily like the version of himself he often sees on screen, but feels director Andrew J. Moscato was accurate.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。