英:[mu:tʃ]
美:[mutʃ]
英:[mu:tʃ]
美:[mutʃ]
复数:mooches
第三人称单数:mooches
现在分词:mooching
过去式:mooched
过去分词:mooched
moocher (n.)
verb
intransitive to move slowly or apathetically : to wander aimlessly
… the rainy afternoons … spent mooching up and down the aisles of small-town pharmacies and hardware stores.—Frederick Busch
transitive + intransitive to get things from another or live off the generosity of others without providing any return payment or benefit : sponge mooching money off her brother has been mooching off his parents for years
trying to mooch a cigarette
noun
one who mooches off others : moocher
The last thing he needed was another mooch … trying to sap his energy and take his time …—Steve Pond
15世纪中期,“假装贫穷”,可能来自古法语 muchier, mucier “隐藏,生闷气,隐瞒,躲藏”,这是一个起源不明的词,可能来自凯尔特语或日耳曼语(利伯曼更喜欢后者,克莱因则更喜欢前者)。还可以比较中古英语 michen “偷窃(小东西)”,15世纪中期,可能来自古英语 *mycan(比较古高地德语 muhhan “抢劫,伏击,埋伏”)。或者这个词可能是中古英语 mucchen “囤积,吝啬”的变体(约1300年),最初可能是“把硬币放在夜帽里”,来自 mucche “夜帽”,源自中古荷兰语 muste “帽子,夜帽”,最终来自中世纪拉丁语 almucia,这也是一个起源不明的词。1857年记录了“依赖他人”的意义。
无论 mooch 的远古起源如何,[日耳曼语]动词 *mycan 及其同源词至少已经成为欧洲俚语两千年了。[利伯曼]
它似乎是一个非常持久的俚语。相关词汇: Mooched; mooching。作为“乞丐”的名词,从1914年开始使用; 作为“乞讨行为”,从1867年开始使用。
Verb probably from French dialect muchier to hide, lurk
The first known use of mooch was in 1851
moodyadjective
frequently influenced by moodsespecially: affected by changeable and gloomy moods or bad temper
expressing a mood
a moody face
moodyadjective
frequently influenced by moodsespecially: affected by changeable and gloomy moods or bad temper
expressing a mood
a moody face
mood1 of 2noun
an emotional state of mind or feelingalso: the feeling expressed in a work of art or literature
a dominant attitude or spirit
the mood of the country was optimistic
a distinctive atmosphere or context
the dark mood of the movie
mood2 of 2noun
a set of forms of a verb that show whether the action or state expressed is to be thought of as a fact, a command, or a wish or possibility
moochverb
to wander about
beg sense 1, sponge
1 Don't send friend requests to all of your child's friends — people you mooched from his/her friends list.
2 Old Flint's son does nothing but mooch about from morning till night.
老弗林特的儿子整天闲逛;什么事也不干。
3 I'm going for a mooch round the shops.
我打算去闲逛一下那些店。
4 In recent years, the wholesaler has made multiple efforts to ice out freeloaders who try to mooch off friends’ memberships.
5 After coasting rather complacently for its previous season, Entourage – the tale of movie star Vincent Chase and his mooching bros – returns with it all to do.
6 I was dubbed a mooch, a parasite, a loafer.
7 If Annie isn’t happy to be mooching on less favorable terms than her sister is, then she needs to either take that up with you or move out.
8 Much of Wrangell looked unchanged since 1899: false-front buildings and clapboard churches, including one where Muir had mooched a night sleeping on the floor his very first night on Alaska soil.
9 While she is a dear friend and we would be delighted to have her, we simply cannot afford another round of mooching.
10 This is A.’s quandary, and the mooching parent isn’t really a friend, but the single working mother of a friend of her 8-year-old daughter.
11 And even if you’re right — your brother is a mooch, and your parents enable his laziness — it doesn’t matter.
12 Don’t attack him for being a mooch.
13 Nobody likes a mooch, but researchers in Australia have found that this parasitic plant is not all bad.
14 This is mooching to the extreme, because these neighbors seem to have taken your spousal trust in each other.
15 It was 1996, and I was using my mum's AOL account to mooch around the world wide web, which was still very much in its infancy.
16 "Magic became science, effectively," he says as we mooch around his hometown of Brighton, scoffing fish and chips and ending up in a fantastic little pub away from the main drag.
17 I sometimes say no thanks, so they don’t think I’m a “mooch.”
18 Truth be told, I was happy to see that, despite mooching cabernet from another guest because I forgot to bring wine, someone thought I “made an impression.”
19 But nothing excuses offering grandiose gratuities you have no intention or means of granting — or, for that matter, mooching off people who make less than you do.
20 More surprisingly, he's accomplished it graciously, without mooching from friends or family or accepting government assistance.
1 乞讨
mendicity mump cadge tap beg bum grub scrounge accost mendicant bludge on the bum burrole gimme pling promote burn spear throw feet on the cadge put the nips in
2 游荡
gadabout extravagant wandering spine-bashing loaf gad bum bludge float jazz ass drift loiter traipse mope gallivant wander on the gad
3 偷窃
larcenous touch lift boost theft pinch abstraction picking rip-off pilfer pick purloin scrump unslough organize finger clip hook shake bend swipe crib clout scrounge prig nobble thieve yaffle
4 白吃
7 招摇撞骗
8 食客
beat shadow heel satellite sponge parasite feeder splice bleeder hanger-on schnorrer smell-feast tagtail trencherman
9 招摇撞骗的人
10 捞取
12 漫步
wander roam ramble dander amble saunter mosey passeggiata walk truck stray meander perambulate rambling stroll rove trog range
14 偷偷摸摸地走
15 徘徊
aprowl wandering peripatetic rangy knockabout dithery roam rove stravage range wander hover revolve linger muck loiter maunder divagate perambulate hang round linger about runabout stroll ramble lurch prowl perambulation hang excurse
18 闲逛
rambling tour wander stroll loaf saunter toddle gad lallygag meander ramble stooge mosey lig trog dilly-dally truck delay troll bum potter lop hang in bat around meanderings patrol roam tootle gad about gad around moon about moon around mope about mope around kick about kick around mill around spine-bashing range lounge promenade wandering idleness bludge potchger tool bomb bat maroon mike loiter gallivant maunder on the gad rat around