moocher
nounEtymology From mooch + -er.
1
Derogatory A person having a tendency to take advantage of the help of others, especially if making little effort to help themselves.
- When Mitt Romney says that 47% of Americans are moochers, or Barack Obama says that entrepreneurs didn’t build their own businesses, partisan viewers crave a partisan response.2012 September 22, “CNN’s woes: Unbiased and unloved”, in The Economist:
2
A person who mooches about.
- The whole area is a network of nature reserves among estuaries and marshes, and a paradise for a moocher like me.1980, Robert Dougall, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 378:
- Derived terms
- molly moocher