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MOOCHER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does moocher mean? 

MOOCHER (noun)
  The noun MOOCHER has 1 sense:

1. someone who mooches or cadges (tries to get something free)play

  Familiarity information: MOOCHER used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


MOOCHER (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

cadger; mooch; moocher; scrounger

Hypernyms ("moocher" is a kind of...):

beggar; mendicant (a pauper who lives by begging)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "moocher"):

schnorrer; shnorrer ((Yiddish) a scrounger who takes advantage of the generosity of others)

Derivation:

mooch (ask for and get free; be a parasite)


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