mouching

He was mouching off quite sad and sulky about it all, when the ship's clock pointed to 4 p.m. (and no one ever argues with a ship's clock), eight bells rang out, and all the junior officers were impressed into a lecture on Turkey -- even including Jimmy Doon, who thought that his important duties ought to have secured him exemption from such an ordeal.

Tell England A Study in a Generation Ernest Raymond 1931

"There's no pleasure in mouching round the town by yourself!"

The Foolish Lovers St. John G. Ervine 1927

They were always mouching about the garden together or sitting secretly in corners; Lena even had her to stay with them, let him take her for long drives in her car.

The Best British Short Stories of 1922 Various 1915

The milch cows were slowly mouching from the corrals as he neared the sheds.

The Story of the Foss River Ranch Ridgwell Cullum 1905

Some of us have been gored by the brutes, and most of us, who have pursued the crafty snipe bird in his native _pâdi_ swamps, have put in various _mauvais quarts d'heure_, with some of these sullenly vindictive animals mouching after us, much in the way that a _gendarme_ pursues a _gamin_.

In Court and Kampong Being Tales and Sketches of Native Life in the Malay Peninsula Hugh Charles Clifford 1903

"No, sergeant -- he was just mouching round, so I pulled him in."

The Green Rust Edgar Wallace 1903

You see, I should first explain how I get so much liberty to go mouching round the bazaars and wharves.

The Road to Mandalay A Tale of Burma 1884

The stubbles -- those that still remain -- are full of linnets, upon which the mouching fowler preys in the late autumn.

The Amateur Poacher Richard Jefferies 1867

Labour now intend to raid AVC pensions, disgusting for people making a provision for your old age and it's going to be taxed. and since you mentioned it Your also forgetting selling the gold reserves at an all time low, creating more criminals, having the first race riots, bankrupting the country, taking responsibility for the economy away from the BOE, creating a huge expensive Public sector red tape creating Bureaucracy, a disillusioned youth with no chance of employment, creating the benefit mouching underclass need I go on ..... wrote:

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"What in the name of Sam Hill would you call that great contraption mouching across our bows?

The Best Short Stories of 1919 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story Various 1915