moocher

plural moochers

1. derogatoryA person having a tendency to take advantage of the help of others, especially if making little effort to help themselves.

   When Mitt Romney says that 47% of Americans are moochers, or Barack Obama says that entrepreneurs didn’t build their own businesses, partisan viewers crave a partisan response.

   2012 September 22, “CNN’s woes: Unbiased and unloved”, in The Economist

2. A person who mooches about.

   The whole area is a network of nature reserves among estuaries and marshes, and a paradise for a moocher like me.

   1980, Robert Dougall, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 378