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mitch

verb
/mɪt͡ʃ/

Etymology

From 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.

  1. derived from *(s)mūg-✻
  2. inherited from *mūk-✻ — “to waylay, ambush, hide, rob”
  3. inherited from *mukkjan✻
  4. inherited from *myċċan✻
  5. inherited from mychen

Definitions

  1. To pilfer

    To pilfer; filch; steal.

  2. To shrink or retire from view

    To shrink or retire from view; lurk out of sight; skulk.

  3. To be absent from (school) without a valid excuse

    To 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.
  4. ›+ 3 more definitions

    1. To grumble secretly.

    2. To pretend poverty.

    3. A diminutive of the male given name Mitchell.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA