mooch
verb (used with object)
to borrow (a small item or amount) without intending to return or repay it.
mouch
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a variation of
mooch.
Example Sentences
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Down in Doyers St., Manhattan, the miserables of the island, unostentatiously mouch along.
From Time Magazine Archive
Thar was a man once—a hoss wrangler—an' the easier a hoss broke, the more he'd mouch around an' hang his head, real melancholy and sad-eyed.
From Stories from Everybody's Magazine by Various
Sometimes it is only to carry a jar of beer up to the men in the field, and to mouch a good armful of fresh-cut clover for provender from the swathe.
From Hodge and His Masters by Richard Jefferies
Whittington didn't come out again, and by and by I got kind of restive, and began to mouch around.
From Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie
Why don't you take a little mouch round the walls?
From Rich Relatives by Compton MacKenzie
