mooch的词源

英文词源

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.

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。

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