mooch

来自中古英语moochen,装穷，来自古法语mucer,逃避，隐藏，躲避，来自PIE*meugh,骗子，贼，可能来自PIE*meug,黏的，滑的，词源同muggy,mucus.由滑引申词义狡猾，老滑头，骗子，乞丐，最后词义通俗化，用于指闲逛，无所事事的溜达。

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.

只剩安德鲁一人在屋里走来走去。

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

他就愿意在家里闲待着。

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

老弗林特的儿子整天闲逛;什么事也不干.