Mooch

Verb

 * 1) To wander around aimlessly,often causing irritation to others.
 * 2) To beg, cadge, or sponge; to exploit or take advantage of others for personal gain.
 * 3) * 1990, p. 26, Michael L. Frankel & friends, Gently with the Tides, Center for Marine Conservation, Washington (DC), ISBN 1879269-007, p. 26,
 * I managed to mooch my way up the journalistic ladder to the next, more impressive level of “Interviewer”.
 * 1)  To steal or filch.
 * 2) * 1922, J. S. Fletcher, The Middle of Things, ch. 16,
 * These chaps that mooch about, as Hyde was doing, pick up all sorts of odds and ends. He may have pinched them from a chemist’s shop.

Derived terms

 * mooch off

Noun

 * 1) One who mooches; a moocher.

Thesaurus
bat, bat around, beg, bum, bum around, cadge, count ties, divagate, do nothing, drift, flit, gad, gad about, gallivant, go about, go the rounds, goof off, hang around, hit, hit the road, hit the trail, hit up, hobo, idle, jaunt, knock about, knock around, laze, lazy, lie around, loaf, loiter about, loll around, lollop around, lounge, lounge around, meander, mooch around, moon, moon around, nomadize, panhandle, pass the hat, peregrinate, pererrate, prowl, ramble, range, roam, rove, run about, saunter, scrounge, sit around, slouch, slouch around, stand around, straggle, stray, stroll, touch, traipse, tramp, vagabond, vagabondize, walk the tracks, wander, wayfare

Etymology
From moochen:, mouchen:, michen:, from  muchier:, mucier:, mucer:, from Old  *undefined:, from, from. Cognate with muhhon:,  muchen:, mucken:.

Alternate etymology derives mooch from mucchen:, from mucche:, from  mutse:, from  almucia:, of unknown origin. More at,.

Verb

 * Polish: snuć się
 * Russian:


 * German: schnorren


 * Swedish: snylta