mooch
verb (used with object)
to borrow (a small item or amount) without intending to return or repay it.
was mooching
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past progressiveof mooch.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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The pangram from yesterday’s Spelling Bee was mooching.
From New York Times ● Oct. 5, 2022
He was mooching around film sets and premières, and the parts began rolling in.
From Economist ● Jun. 9, 2016
Mick Eve, sax player for Georgie Fame’s Blue Flames, was mooching around the musical instrument shops in London’s Denmark Street as one did in 1966.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 25, 2014
I'd probably not long since read the actual Lord of the Rings when I was mooching around a bookshop near the front and plucked out this slim, imported paperback.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 8, 2011
She had expected a rippling stream, and, to her disappointment, saw only a broad strip of dry sand, along which Moongarr Bill was mooching, a spade in his hand.
From Lady Bridget in the Never-Never Land: a story of Australian life by Mrs. Campbell Praed
