MOOCHER

moocher, mooch, cadger, scrounger

(noun) someone who mooches or cadges (tries to get something free)

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

moocher (plural moochers)

(mostly, pejorative) A person having a tendency to take advantage of the help of others, especially if making little effort to help themselves.

Synonyms

• See also scrounger

Source: Wiktionary



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Word of the Day

25 December 2024

UNAMBIGUOUS

(adjective) having or exhibiting a single clearly defined meaning; “As a horror, apartheid...is absolutely unambiguous”- Mario Vargas Llosa


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The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.

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