moocher en · NOUN
Etymology
From mooch + -er.
Meanings
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(derogatory) A person having a tendency to take advantage of the help of others, especially if making little effort to help themselves.
When Mitt Romney says that 47% of Americans are moochers, or Barack Obama says that entrepreneurs didn’t build their own businesses, partisan viewers crave a partisan response.
2012 September 22, “CNN’s woes: Unbiased and unloved”, in The Economist:
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A person who mooches about.
The whole area is a network of nature reserves among estuaries and marshes, and a paradise for a moocher like me.
1980, Robert Dougall, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 378:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| moochers | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Deriveds
Translations (21)
tl paasa (a person having a tendency to repeatedly ask help of others) · ru попроша́йка (a person having a tendency to repeatedly ask help of others) · cmn 乞丐 (a person having a tendency to repeatedly ask help of others) · ja 乞丐 (a person having a tendency to repeatedly ask help of others) · fr tapeur (a person having a tendency to repeatedly ask help of others) · de Schnorrer (a person having a tendency to repeatedly ask help of others) · nl profiteur (a person having a tendency to repeatedly ask help of others) · ru поберу́шка (a person having a tendency to repeatedly ask help of others) · sv snyltare (a person having a tendency to repeatedly ask help of others) · no snylter (a person having a tendency to repeatedly ask help of others) · ru побиру́шка (a person having a tendency to repeatedly ask help of others) · gl pedichón (a person having a tendency to repeatedly ask help of others) · cs loudil (a person having a tendency to repeatedly ask help of others) · gd sgimilear (a person having a tendency to repeatedly ask help of others) · fi lokki (a person having a tendency to repeatedly ask help of others) · nl parasiet (a person having a tendency to repeatedly ask help of others) · fr tapeuse (a person having a tendency to repeatedly ask help of others) · nl bietser (a person having a tendency to repeatedly ask help of others) · gl aprobeitado (a person having a tendency to repeatedly ask help of others) · cs somrák (a person having a tendency to repeatedly ask help of others) · de Schnorrerin (a person having a tendency to repeatedly ask help of others)