Clues for the word "MOOCH"
We've had 41 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 89 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Evening Standard Cryptic crossword on November 06, 2025.
Referring Clues
- Sponge
- Borrow, slangily
- Be a sponge
- Bum
- Freeload
- "Borrow" permanently
- Sponge (off of)
- Look for a handout
- Behave like Cab Calloway's "red hot hoochie coocher"?
- Freeloader
- Be a human sponge
- Cosmo, to Jerry
- Live like a parasite
- Borrow permanently
- Be a freeloader
- Be a parasite
- Schnorrer
- Cadge
- Character in the comic "Mutts"
- Borrow with no thought of repaying
- Act the leech
- Skulk
- Making an animal noise, children hang around
- Loiter in bored fashion
- Bum a smoke, say
- Walk aimlessly
- Aimless ramble encountered in Low Church
- Obtain without recompense
- Scrounger
- Wander about a lot with two ducks instead of you, say
- Hang around with a low companion
- Person who sponges
- Loiter with a low companion
- Steal a fry, say
- Human sponge
- Scrounging sort
- Use, in a way, with "off"
- Sponge (off)
- Person who might habitually "forget their wallet"
- Freeloading sort
- Person who habitually scrounges
Last Seen In
- Evening Standard Cryptic - November 06, 2025
- LA Times - May 27, 2025
- LA Times - March 18, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - September 09, 2024
- USA Today - August 24, 2024
- New York Times - July 22, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - May 08, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - February 10, 2024
- USA Today - February 05, 2024
- LA Times - December 29, 2023
- LA Times - August 12, 2023
- Penny Dell Daily - October 26, 2022
- LA Times - September 27, 2022
- Penny Dell Daily - August 06, 2022
- Penny Dell Daily - July 28, 2022
- Penny Dell Daily - July 11, 2022
- Penny Dell Daily - January 24, 2018
- Wall Street Journal - October 21, 2017
- Wall Street Journal - June 28, 2017
- Netword - January 15, 2017
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - December 14, 2016
- Universal - November 01, 2016
- Netword - April 23, 2016
- LA Times Sunday - April 03, 2016
- Wall Street Journal - March 21, 2016
- LA Times - December 04, 2015
- Universal - August 31, 2015
- Pat Sajack's Code Letter - June 13, 2015
- LA Times Sunday - March 29, 2015
- King Syndicate - Premier Sunday - February 15, 2015
- And in 59 more crossword puzzles...