Mouch

verb

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Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    Dated form of mooch. alt-of, dated

    "1925, G. K. Chesterton, “The Unobstrusive Traffic of Captain Pierce” in Tales of the Long Bow I've been mouching around trying to hit the trail of an antiquity or two, but I don't seem to know the way to pick it up."

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"1925, G. K. Chesterton, “The Unobstrusive Traffic of Captain Pierce” in Tales of the Long Bow I've been mouching around trying to hit the trail of an antiquity or two, but I don't seem to know the way to pick it up."

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