Mooch

Definitions

1. An aimless stroll.
   UK, colloquial
2. Synonym of Scaramucci (“unit of time”).
   US, colloquial, humorous, slang
3. One who mooches; a moocher.
   colloquial

Equivalents

8 more languages

العربيةإسرق

Catalàgorrejar

Češtinaloudit

Galegovadiarvagar

Polskisnuć się

Portuguêszanzar

Русскийпобира́тьсяпопроша́йничатьслоняться

Svenskasnylta

Examples

“Jack wouldn't be arriving for another ten minutes, so I had a mooch around the garden.”

“At the secondary school where I normally work⟳ as a librarian, I take⟳ key workers’ and other children on a “nature mooch”. We undull our senses.”

“"No! I'm sick of you being a mooch, bumming off me all the time! I'm going to London for a few days."”

“If we take⟳ Scaramucci’s 10-day figure⟳ to be the standard of measurement — one “mooch” — then Pruitt survived an amazing 50.3 mooches, even while enduring more than a dozen scandals, any one of which would have⟳ doomed a lesser man.”

“Scaramucci, who jokingly measures time in mooches, a unit equal to approximately 11 days, said he doesn’t necessarily like⟳ the version of himself he often sees on screen, but feels director Andrew J. Moscato was accurate.”

“I understand⟳ it's her job. But I would point⟳ out to people that Stephanie has lasted way more “Mooches” than me.”

CEFR level