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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
moocher

"beggar, scrounger," 1857, agent noun from mooch (v.).

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moocher

n. 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.

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moocher

n. someone who mooches or cadges (tries to get something free) [syn: cadger, scrounger]

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Usage examples of "moocher".

He realized only that anyone who could govern such powerful mobsters as Socks Mallory and Moocher Gleetz must, indeed, be a supercrook.

Moocher Gleetz finished his study of the newspaper, and turned to Socks Mallory.

AFTER Moocher had departed, Socks Mallory went to the left end of the corridor and opened the steel door that was located there.

If Congress is slashing welfare, the blade ought to come down as brutally on corporate moochers as on social programs.

The street people and the hustlers and the moochers watched them go by, and no one shook a paper cup of change at them, no one asked them for anything at all.

It took us just one meeting to discover that we had become beggars—rotten, whining, sniveling beggars, all of us, because no man could claim his pay as his rightful earning, he had no rights and no earnings, his work didn't belong to him, it belonged to 'the family,' and they owed him nothing in return, and the only claim he had on them was his 'need'—so he had to beg in public for relief from his needs, like any lousy moocher, listing all his troubles and miseries, down to his patched drawers and his wife's head colds, hoping that 'the family' would throw him the alms.