Lexic.us

Definition of Moocher

1. Noun. Someone who mooches or cadges (tries to get something free).

Definition of Moocher

1. Noun. A person having a tendency to repeatedly ask help of others, especially if they are making little effort to help themselves. Usually used as a pejorative. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Moocher

1. one that mooches [n -S] - See also: mooches

Lexicographical Neighbors of Moocher

Literary usage of Moocher

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. For the Term of His Natural Life by Marcus Andrew Hislop Clarke, Andrew Barton Paterson (1899)
"The other two were a man named Sanders, known as "the moocher," and Jemmy ... Jack ud have a word in that," snuffles the moocher; ''and he's a curious cove ..."

2. New Words Self-defined by Charles Alphonso Smith (1919)
"moocher Many "charges" have been "hurled" at Miss ... If a "moocher" is only a bolter, it is a title of honour and respect which Miss Rankin can accept with ..."

3. Publications by English Dialect Society (1894)
"Cf. moocher. 'To Miche, or secretly to hide himself out of the way, us truants doe from schoole ... moocher, Mocher, Moucher, sb. A skulker; a hedge robber. ..."

4. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Edward Cornelius Towne (1897)
"Greenhill, who is the weakest, sees Gabbett and the moocher go aside to consult, and crawling to the Crow, whimpers, " For God's sake, Jemmy, don't let 'em ..."

5. Reprinted Glossaries by Walter William Skeat (1879)
"moocher, a truant ; as, " a blaek- borry-moocher," a boy who absents himself from school to rove in the fields. Shakspeare uses the expression "am icher of ..."

6. A Warwickshire Word-book: Comprising Obsolescent and Dialect Words by G. F. Northall (1896)
"Cf. moocher. 'To Miche, or secretly to hide himself out of the way, as truants doe from schoole.'—Florio. 'Sure she has Some mooching rascal in her house. ..."

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