mooch

verb

/muːtʃ/

(informal)

动词形式

present simple I / you / we / they mooch	/muːtʃ/ /muːtʃ/
he / she / it mooches	/ˈmuːtʃɪz/ /ˈmuːtʃɪz/
past simple mooched	/muːtʃt/ /muːtʃt/
past participle mooched	/muːtʃt/ /muːtʃt/
-ing form mooching	/ˈmuːtʃɪŋ/ /ˈmuːtʃɪŋ/

[intransitive] + adv./prep. (British English) to walk slowly with no particular purpose; to be somewhere not doing very much溜达；闲逛 synonym potter
- He's happy to mooch around the house all day.他就愿意在家里闲待着。
- We had coffee then mooched down to the beach.我们喝了咖啡，然后去了海滩。
[intransitive, transitive] mooch (something) (off somebody) (North American English) to get money, food, etc. from somebody else instead of paying for it yourself白吃（或用等）；要别人白给（金钱、食物等） synonym cadge
- He's always mooching off his friends.他总是向朋友讨钱花。

词源late Middle English (in the sense ‘to hoard’): probably from Old French muchier (Anglo-Norman muscher) ‘hide, skulk’. Current senses date from the mid 19th cent.