- 1蹭、白吃白喝、佔便宜
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. It is informal American English, a little — it suggests you are taking and not giving back. 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. 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.
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，摘錄並精簡格式，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/
- 1
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.
- 2
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.
- 3
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/
- 1
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.
- 2
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：
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。