Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who mouches: same as mitcher.
  • noun One who lives a semi-vagabond life, selling water-cresses, wild flowers, blackberries, and other things that may be obtained in country places for the gathering.

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Examples

  • Estant assis a table, ne vous grattez point, vous gardez tant que vous pourrez, de cracher, de tousser, de vous moucher: que s'il y a necessite, faites-le adroitement, sans beaucoup de bruit, en tournant le visage de coste.

    George Washington's Rules of Civility Conway, M D 1890

  • Le prince de Galles, raconte Lord Seymour, dans des mémoires inédits, le prince de Galles assure -- et doit s'y connaître -- "qu'il n'y a pas une honnête femme à Londres, excepté Lady Parker et Lady Westmorland: et encore sont-elles si bêtes qu'on n'en peut rien tirer: tout au plus sont-elles capables de se moucher elles-mêmes."

    Collections and Recollections George William Erskine Russell 1886

  • "My mates at whoam, though, names me, and the folk in Lancacheer tew, ` Joey the moucher. '"

    Afloat at Last A Sailor Boy's Log of his Life at Sea William Heysham Overend 1874

  • The moucher searches for small shell snails, of which quantities are sold as food for cage birds, and cuts small 'turfs' a few inches square from the green by the roadside.

    The Amateur Poacher Richard Jefferies 1867

  • Some of the drier part of the soil the moucher takes to sell for use in gardens and flower-pots as peat.

    The Amateur Poacher Richard Jefferies 1867

  • The moucher now carries a bill-hook, and as he shambles along the road keeps a sharp look-out for briars.

    The Amateur Poacher Richard Jefferies 1867

  • Even these the moucher sometimes captures; for there is nothing so strange but that some one selects it for a pet.

    The Amateur Poacher Richard Jefferies 1867

  • The moucher sells the nests and eggs of small birds to townsfolk who cannot themselves wander among the fields, but who love to see something that reminds them of the green meadows.

    The Amateur Poacher Richard Jefferies 1867

  • In going to and fro the fields the moucher searches the banks and digs out primrose 'mars,' and ferns with the root attached, which he hawks from door to door in the town.

    The Amateur Poacher Richard Jefferies 1867

  • By-and-by the golden wheat calls for an army of workers; but the moucher passes on and gathers groundsel.

    The Amateur Poacher Richard Jefferies 1867

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