mooch – English verb conjugation

English verb forms of mooch

Nominal Forms

Infinitive: to mooch
Participle: mooched
Gerund: mooching

Cognates

See the 2 cognates of mooch

Indicative

Present

Imooch
youmooch
he;she;itmooches
wemooch
youmooch
theymooch

Perfect

Ihave mooched
youhave mooched
he;she;ithas mooched
wehave mooched
youhave mooched
theyhave mooched

Past

Imooched
youmooched
he;she;itmooched
wemooched
youmooched
theymooched

Pluperfect

Ihad mooched
youhad mooched
he;she;ithad mooched
wehad mooched
youhad mooched
theyhad mooched

Future

Iwill mooch
youwill mooch
he;she;itwill mooch
wewill mooch
youwill mooch
theywill mooch

Future Perfect

Iwill have mooched
youwill have mooched
he;she;itwill have mooched
wewill have mooched
youwill have mooched
theywill have mooched

Subjunctive

Present

Imooch
youmooch
he;she;itmooch
wemooch
youmooch
theymooch

Perfect

Ihave mooched
youhave mooched
he;she;ithave mooched
wehave mooched
youhave mooched
theyhave mooched

Imperfect

Imooched
youmooched
he;she;itmooched
wemooched
youmooched
theymooched

Pluperfect

Ihad mooched
youhad mooched
he;she;ithad mooched
wehad mooched
youhad mooched
theyhad mooched

Conditional

Present

Iwould mooch
youwould mooch
he;she;itwould mooch
wewould mooch
youwould mooch
theywould mooch

Perfect

Iwould have mooched
youwould have mooched
he;she;itwould have mooched
wewould have mooched
youwould have mooched
theywould have mooched

Imperative

youmooch
weLet's mooch
youmooch

Progressive (Continuous) Forms

Indicative

Present

Iam mooching
youare mooching
he;she;itis mooching
weare mooching
youare mooching
theyare mooching

Perfect

Ihave been mooching
youhave been mooching
he;she;ithas been mooching
wehave been mooching
youhave been mooching
theyhave been mooching

Past

Iwas mooching
youwere mooching
he;she;itwas mooching
wewere mooching
youwere mooching
theywere mooching

Pluperfect

Ihad been mooching
youhad been mooching
he;she;ithad been mooching
wehad been mooching
youhad been mooching
theyhad been mooching

Future

Iwill be mooching
youwill be mooching
he;she;itwill be mooching
wewill be mooching
youwill be mooching
theywill be mooching

Future Perfect

Iwill have been mooching
youwill have been mooching
he;she;itwill have been mooching
wewill have been mooching
youwill have been mooching
theywill have been mooching

Conditional

Present

Iwould be mooching
youwould be mooching
he;she;itwould be mooching
wewould be mooching
youwould be mooching
theywould be mooching

Perfect

Iwould have been mooching
youwould have been mooching
he;she;itwould have been mooching
wewould have been mooching
youwould have been mooching
theywould have been mooching

Other

Verbs conjugated like 'mooch'

abash, abolish, abroach, accomplish, accroach, address, admix, admonish, ado, adpress, affamish, affix, alloo, amass, ambush, anguish, annex, appeach, appears, approach, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)

Verbs similar to 'mooch'

gooch, moosh, mouch, ooch, pooch, smooch, botch, brooch, coach, conch,

Synonyms & Antonyms

Additional Information

Phrasal Verbs

Etymology

1. From Middle English moochen, mouchen (“to pretend poverty”), from Old French muchier, mucier, mucer (“to skulk, hide, conceal”), from Frankish *mukkjan (“to hide, conceal oneself”), from Proto-Germanic *mukjaną, *mūkōną (“to hide, ambush”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)mūg-, *(s)mewgʰ- (“swindler, thief”).
2. Cognate with Old High German mūhhōn (“to store, cache, plunder”), Middle High German muchen, mucken (“to hide, stash”), Middle English müchen, michen (“to rob, steal, pilfer”). More at mitch.
3. Alternate etymology derives mooch from Middle English mucchen (“to hoard, be stingy”, literally “to hide coins in one's nightcap”), from Middle English mucche (“nightcap”), from Middle Dutch mutse (“cap, nightcap”), from Medieval Latin almucia (“nightcap”), of unknown origin, possibly Arabic. More at mutch, amice. See: Middle High German 'muchen'.

Sample Sentences

  • Near-synonyms: loiter, roam
  • These chaps that mooch about, as Hyde was doing, pick up all sorts of odds and ends. He may have pinched them from a chemist’s shop. [1922, J. S. Fletcher, The Middle of Things, New York: A. Knopf, page 161:]
  • You have to be alone to mooch about properly. Other people will just get in the way and be all energetic about things. So wait until they've gone, make a cup of tea and then let the mooching commence. [2007 August 10, Guy Browning, “How to … mooch about”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:]
  • With 79 minutes gone, the most celebrated team of the modern age had been reduced to bunch of mooching, stumbling yellow-shirted spectators. [2019 May 8, Barney Ronay, “Liverpool’s waves of red fury and recklessness end in joyous bedlam”, in The Guardian:]
  • A handful of camera crews mooched around the entrance to the Giorgio Cini foundation, where a pair of tight-lipped but polite individuals sat before monitors under a gazebo and politely fended off requests for information. [2025 June 27, Sam Jones, “Till Jeff us do part: divisive, star-studded Bezos wedding hits full swing in Venice”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:]
  • I managed to mooch my way up the journalistic ladder to the next, more impressive level of “Interviewer”. [1990, Michael L. Frankel & friends, Gently with the Tides, Washington (DC): Center for Marine Conservation, →ISBN, page 26:]
  • Mr. Prince responded on Twitter: “Phony fraud photographers keep mooching me. Why? I changed the game,” he wrote on Wednesday. His Instagram account, which previously had over 70,000 followers, is currently disabled. [2017 July 20, Andrew R. Chow, quoting Richard Prince, “Copyright Case Over Richard Prince Instagram Show to Go Forward”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:]
  • I'm tired of driving you all over and sick of you living in my house, mooching my food. [2019, Susan Alice Bickford, Dread of Winter:]