mooch

• vt. 偷；央求
• vi. 漫步；彷徨
• n. 閑逛；想討便宜的顧客

來自中古英語moochen,裝窮，來自古法語mucer,逃避，隱藏，躲避，來自PIE*meugh,騙子，賊，可能來自PIE*meug,黏的，滑的，詞源同muggy,mucus.由滑引申詞義狡猾，老滑頭，騙子，乞丐，最後詞義通俗化，用於指閑逛，無所事事的溜達。

mooch (v.)

mid-15c., "pretend poverty," probably from Old French muchier, mucier "to hide, sulk, conceal, hide away, keep out of sight," of uncertain origin, perhaps from Celtic or Germanic (Liberman prefers the latter, Klein the former). Or the word may be a variant of Middle English mucchen "to hoard, be stingy" (c. 1300), probably originally "to keep coins in one's nightcap," from mucche "nightcap," from Middle Dutch muste "cap, nightcap," ultimately from Medieval Latin almucia, of unknown origin. Sense of "sponge off others" first recorded 1857.

Whatever the distant origin of mooch, the verb *mycan and its cognates have been part of European slang for at least two millennia. [Liberman]

Related: Mooched; mooching. As a noun meaning "a moocher," from 1914.

1. Andrew was left to mooch around the house on his own.

隻剩安德魯一人在屋裏走來走去。

來自柯林斯例句

2. He's happy to mooch around the house all day.

他就願意在家裏閑待著。

來自《權威詞典》

3. Old Flint's son does nothing but mooch about from morning till night.

老弗林特的兒子整天閑逛;什麽事也不幹.

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