miching

English

Alternative forms

• meeching
• meaching
• mitching

Adjective

miching (comparative more miching, superlative most miching)

1. (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

• “miching”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• chiming