mooch
名词 n.
动词 v.
限定词 det.
英文释义
名词 n.
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An aimless stroll.
— Jack wouldn't be arriving for another ten minutes, so I had a mooch around the garden.
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Synonym 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.
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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."
动词 v.
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To wander around aimlessly, often causing irritation to others.
— Near-synonyms: loiter, roam
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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”.
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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.
限定词 det.
- Pronunciation spelling of much
词源
词源 1
From Middle English moochen, mouchen (“to pretend poverty”), from Old French muchier, mucier, mucer (“to skulk, hide, conceal”), from Frankish *mukkjan (“to hide, conceal oneself”), from Proto-Germanic *mukjaną, *mūkōną (“to hide, ambush”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)mūg-, *(s)mewgʰ- (“swindler, thief”).
Cognate with Old High German mūhhōn (“to store, cache, plunder”), Middle High German muchen, mucken (“to hide, stash”), Middle English müchen, michen (“to rob, steal, pilfer”). More at mitch.
Alternate etymology derives mooch from Middle English mucchen (“to hoard, be stingy”, literally “to hide coins in one's nightcap”), from Middle English mucche (“nightcap”), from Middle Dutch mutse (“cap, nightcap”), from Medieval Latin almucia (“nightcap”), of unknown origin, possibly Arabic. More at mutch, amice.
Cognate with Old High German mūhhōn (“to store, cache, plunder”), Middle High German muchen, mucken (“to hide, stash”), Middle English müchen, michen (“to rob, steal, pilfer”). More at mitch.
Alternate etymology derives mooch from Middle English mucchen (“to hoard, be stingy”, literally “to hide coins in one's nightcap”), from Middle English mucche (“nightcap”), from Middle Dutch mutse (“cap, nightcap”), from Medieval Latin almucia (“nightcap”), of unknown origin, possibly Arabic. More at mutch, amice.
词源 2
Clipping of Scaramucci.
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