miching
English
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editmiching (comparative more miching, superlative most miching)
- (US, dialectal, obsolete) hiding; skulking; cowardly or freeloading
- 1950 [1947], Edmund Wilson, “A Dissenting Opinion on Kafka”, in Classics and Commercials: a Literary Chronicle of the Forties, page 391:
- On the other hand, for me, these stories too often forfeit their effectiveness as satires through Kafka's rather meaching compliance, his little-boylike respect and fear in the presence of the things he should satirize: […]
References
edit- “miching”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.