mooch n.2
1. (US) a bad mood.
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | More Fables in Sl. (1960) 114: Any husband could [...] shoot all kinds of Sweetness and Light into the sassiest Mooch a Wife ever got on. |
2. a problem, a difficult situation.
![[WI]](/static/img/flags/wi.png "West Indies") | Lonely Londoners 56: Cap [...] wondering how to get out of the mooch he find himself in. |
In derivatives
tetchy.
![[UK]](/static/img/flags/uk.png "United Kingdom") | The Weir 67: I’d be all catty and bored, and moochy. |