mitch
To pilfer; filch; stealTo pilfer; filch; steal.
» Mitch has two dads.
Mitch hat zwei Väter.
У Митча два отца.
Meaning
5 senses(dialectal, transitive)To pilfer; filch; steal.
(dialectal, intransitive)To shrink or retire from view; lurk out of sight; skulk.
(Ireland, Wales, ambitransitive)To be absent from (school) without a valid excuse; to play truant, to skive off.
John said he was going to mitch the last lesson today.
(dialectal, intransitive)To grumble secretly.
(dialectal, intransitive)To pretend poverty.
Examples
7 sentencesMitch has two dads.
ruУ Митча два отца.
deMitch hat zwei Väter.
Dementia is almost too good for Mitch McConnell.
He and Mitch McConnell are doing this on purpose; they want to kill people.
Some say Mitch McConnell delegitimized the U.S. Supreme Court, but it was actually always illegitimate.
I don't feel any pity for Mitch McConnell. I hope his slide into dementia is slow and agonizing.
Translations
1 languagesOrigin
From Middle English mychen, müchen (“to rob, steal, pilfer”), from Old English *mȳċan (“toFrom Middle English mychen, müchen (“to rob, steal, pilfer”), from Old English *mȳċan (“to steal”), from Proto-West Germanic *mūkijan, from Proto-Germanic *mūkijaną (“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.
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Forms
mitches, mitching, mitched, mitchedWord family
1 related wordsLessons for this word
3 lessons- A1Present simple — Because it is a verb
- A1Past simple, regular verbs — Because of its past form
- A2Present perfect: introduction — Because of its past participle