/mɪt͡ʃ/
OriginFrom 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.
- dialectal, transitiveTo pilfer; filch; steal.
- dialectal, intransitiveTo shrink or retire from view; lurk out of sight; skulk.
- Ireland, Wales, ambitransitiveTo be absent from (school) without a valid excuse; to play truant, to skive off.
“"Did you ever mitch school?" he asked.
"No. But I think this is what it would feel like."”
“John said he was going to mitch the last lesson today.”
“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.”
- dialectal, intransitiveTo grumble secretly.
- dialectal, intransitiveTo pretend poverty.
- A diminutive of the male given name Mitchell.
“Walker – a Republican frontrunner in the race for Georgia Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock’s seat who has racked up high-profile endorsements from both former President Donald Trump and Senate Minority”
Formsmitches(present, singular, third-person) · mitching(participle, present) · mitched(participle, past) · mitched(past) · mich(alternative) · mych(alternative) · myche(alternative) · meech(alternative) · meach(alternative) · miche(alternative, obsolete) · Mitches(plural)