mooch

Object

round: Instead of having a leisurely mooch round the garden centers, n then having a whack at Golf, wev been cleaning!

Preposition: through

section: Take the time to mooch through each section and discover those special concoctions to make your evening go with a bang.

Preposition: around

• shop: Mooch around the shops in the warren of quaint, narrow streets which radiate from the old Town Market Square.
• town: Finally, I think I prefer eating out in Hurghada, and particularly mooching around the old town.

Modifying Another Word

• just: No longer are you just mooching around in the dark silently snapping necks.
• generally: Anna and I took the opportunity to do a bit of maths together, and some drawing, and mooching generally.
• around: If you prefer just to mooch quietly around at your own pace, then why not do that?

Followed by an intransitive particle

• around: Food consumed, we mooched around for a few hours, much coffee was drunk.
• along: He mooched along, pulling up the collar of his jacket against the rain.
• off: All year long, the grasshopper kept burying acorns for the winter, while the octopus mooched off his girlfriend and watched TV.

Followed by a transitive particle

• around: Just can't have a good mooch around the local shops with a man can you!
• off: We figure that the reason that he was alive was that he was mooching off the various camps.
• away: Hidden off a great little cluster of hideaway streets just right for mooching away sodden afternoons in the middle of a gray London autumns.

Particle object:

• house: The only kind of activity allowed is basic cooking, and mooching around the house gently in your slippers.
• town: Fleisher's Hotel, Voss Took the camera and had a mooch around the town, which was not that big.
• shop: Just can't have a good mooch around the local shops with a man can you!