mooch

Signification (Anglais)

Verb

1. (British, colloquial) To wander around aimlessly, often causing irritation to others.
2. (colloquial) To beg, cadge, or sponge; to exploit or take advantage of others for personal gain.
3. (British, colloquial, transitive) To steal or filch.

Noun

1. (UK, colloquial) An aimless stroll.
2. (colloquial) One who mooches; a moocher.

Noun

Synonym of Scaramucci (“unit of time”).

Concepts

traînailler

trainailler

éponge

🧽

errer

Synonymes

moocher

cadger

cadge

scrounger

sponge

🧽

steal

grub

bum

pilfer

borrow

loaf

beggar

play truant

scab

scrounge

skulk

Traductions

scroccare

zanganear

aşırmak

herumlungern

gorrer

gorrista

vividor

schnorren

αποκτώ χωρίς πληρωμή

mangiapane

mangiaufo

parassita

sbafare

sbafatore

scroccatore

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/muːt͡ʃ/

Étymologie (Anglais)

Hérité de moyen anglais: moochen

Appartenant à ancien haut allemand: mūhhōn

Appartenant à moyen haut-allemand: muchen

Appartenant à moyen anglais: muchen

Hérité de moyen anglais: mucchen

In summary

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.