mitch
See also: Mitch
English
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editFrom Middle English mychen, müchen (“to rob, steal, pilfer”), from Old English *myċċan (“to steal”), from Proto-West Germanic *mukkjan, from Proto-Germanic *mukjaną (“to waylay, ambush, hide, rob”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)mūg-, *(s)mewg- (“swindler, thief”). Cognate with Scots mich, myche (“to steal”), Saterland Frisian mogeln (“to act secretively and deceitfully”), Dutch mokkelen (“to flatter”), Alemannic German mauchen (“to nibble secretively”), German mogeln (“to cheat”), German meucheln (“to assassinate”), Norwegian i mugg (“in secret, secretly”), Latin muger (“cheater”). Related to mooch.
Pronunciation
edit- IPA(key): /mɪt͡ʃ/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
- Rhymes: -ɪtʃ
Verb
editmitch (third-person singular simple present mitches, present participle mitching, simple past and past participle mitched)
- (transitive, dialectal) To pilfer; filch; steal.
- (intransitive, dialectal) To shrink or retire from view; lurk out of sight; skulk.
- (Ireland, Wales, transitive, intransitive) To be absent from (school) without a valid excuse; to play truant, to skive off.
- 1983, Bernard MacLaverty, Cal, Chapter 4. (p.115 in the 1998 Vintage paperback edition):
- "Did you ever mitch school?" he asked.
"No. But I think this is what it would feel like."
- "Did you ever mitch school?" he asked.
- John said he was going to mitch the last lesson today.
- 1996, Graham Linehan, Arthur Mathews, "Old Grey Whistle Theft" (Father Ted TV episode)
- I was young once. God, the things we used to get up to in the seminary. Me and a bunch of the lads there, once we mitched off to see a Dana concert.
- 1983, Bernard MacLaverty, Cal, Chapter 4. (p.115 in the 1998 Vintage paperback edition):
- (intransitive, dialectal) To grumble secretly.
- (intransitive, dialectal) To pretend poverty.
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edit(play truant):
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