mitch
Pronunciations
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/mɪt͡ʃ/
Verb
To pilfer; filch; steal.
Usage- dialectal
- Transitive
To shrink or retire from view; lurk out of sight; skulk.
Usage- dialectal
- Intransitive
To be absent from (school) without a valid excuse; to play truant, to skive off.
Usage- Ireland
- Wales
- Transitive or intransitive
- Examples
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"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.
More examples (1)
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.
To grumble secretly.
Usage- dialectal
- Intransitive
To pretend poverty.
Usage- dialectal
- Intransitive
Word forms
mitchesmitchingmitchedmitchedmichmychmychemeechmeachmiche