The word "mooch" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to someone who excessively takes advantage of the kindness of others or to describe an act of taking something without permission or payment. For example: "As soon as John lost his job, he started to mooch off his parents for money."
So I resolve to restrict any visit to fashionable retro stores such as Rokit and Pop Boutique to a biannual treat – making shopping special again – while allowing perhaps a monthly mooch around some local charity shops.
Military vehicles mooch through city streets where they used to tear around, screaming at locals to get out of the way.But the critics of the McChrystal counter-insurgency, and they include just about every member of every NGO in Kabul, say that it ignores the fiendish complexities of power and politics in Afghanistan's localities.
It is not means-tested, so old people who previously paid for their own drug coverage have an incentive to mooch off the taxpayer instead.
They can pay a few dollars to listen to, say, Flaco Jimenez, a frenetic and brilliant San Antonio accordionist, or slip next door to catch Mitch Watkins, a hometown guitar legend, or mooch even further down Sixth Street to catch a promising young funk band.Some will retreat to mellower hideaways.
Let them mooch around for ten minutes or so, then load them back into the truck.
Grizzly bears mooch about hunting for food, and the hills are ablaze with Arctic flowers.The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, 8m hectares of it, is the last protected piece of the Alaskan Arctic.
If you doubt that modern Britain works as a melting pot then visit this furniture shop because all life is here: cultures mingle and mooch, kids cry and folks choose bookcases with names like celebrity offspring – Hemnes and Oxberg.
Far from the Aviator shades, suit and topless models, this time it's Thicke who's semi-naked and vulnerable, crying in the dark as text messages reading 'I hate myself' and 'You ruined everything' mooch across the screen like angsty teenagers.
They come, they eat out, they mooch around the shops – and apparently, they sometimes propose.
A mooch around the market in Place des Héroes, admiring the splendid architecture while shopping for strawberries, peaches and warm pains au chocolat, was the Saturday morning.
The weekend You can stroll the three miles into Aberfeldy along a path beside the River Tay, to mooch around shops such as shabby-chic homes emporium Homer (01887 820802; athomer.co.uk) and the Aberfeldy Watermill (01887 822896; aberfeldywatermill.com) next door with its bookshop, art gallery and cosy café.
