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"ref": "1922, J. S. Fletcher, The Middle of Things, New York: A. Knopf, page 161",
"text": "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.",
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"ref": "2019 May 8, Barney Ronay, “Liverpool’s waves of red fury and recklessness end in joyous bedlam”, in The Guardian",
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"sense": "wander around aimlessly",
"word": "errer"
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"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "wander around aimlessly",
"word": "vadiar"
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"sense": "wander around aimlessly",
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"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "wander around aimlessly",
"word": "whakatairangi"
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"sense": "wander around aimlessly",
"word": "snuć się"
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"ref": "1990, Michael L. Frankel & friends, Gently with the Tides, Washington (DC): Center for Marine Conservation, page 26",
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"ref": "2017 July 20, Andrew R. Chow, quoting Richard Prince, “Copyright Case Over Richard Prince Instagram Show to Go Forward”, in The New York Times, →ISSN",
"text": "Mr. Prince responded on Twitter: “Phony fraud photographers keep mooching me. Why? I changed the game,” he wrote on Wednesday. His Instagram account, which previously had over 70,000 followers, is currently disabled.",
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"ref": "2019, Susan Alice Bickford, Dread of Winter",
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"ref": "2019 August 29, Peter Nicholas, “Anthony Scaramucci Wants You to Believe Him This Time”, in The Atlantic",
"text": "I understand it's her job. But I would point out to people that Stephanie has lasted way more “Mooches” than me.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A unit of time comprising ten days, used to measure how long someone holds a job."
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(US, slang) A unit of time comprising ten days, used to measure how long someone holds a job."
],
"tags": [
"US",
"slang"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/muːt͡ʃ/"
},
{
"rhymes": "-uːtʃ"
},
{
"audio": "en-us-mooch.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/b/b2/En-us-mooch.ogg/En-us-mooch.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b2/En-us-mooch.ogg",
"tags": [
"US"
],
"text": "Audio (US)"
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "mouch"
}
],
"word": "mooch"
}
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