Meaning

5 senses

  1. (dialectal, transitive)To pilfer; filch; steal.

  2. (dialectal, intransitive)To shrink or retire from view; lurk out of sight; skulk.

  3. (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.

  4. (dialectal, intransitive)To grumble secretly.

  5. (dialectal, intransitive)To pretend poverty.

Examples

7 sentences

  1. Mitch has two dads.

    ruУ Митча два отца. — Ooneykcall

    deMitch hat zwei Väter. — Esperantostern

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  2. Dementia is almost too good for Mitch McConnell.

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  3. He and Mitch McConnell are doing this on purpose; they want to kill people.

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  4. Some say Mitch McConnell delegitimized the U.S. Supreme Court, but it was actually always illegitimate.

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  5. I don't feel any pity for Mitch McConnell. I hope his slide into dementia is slow and agonizing.

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Translations

1 languages

Origin

From Middle English mychen, müchen (“to rob, steal, pilfer”), from Old English *mȳċan (“to

From 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, mitched
Base formmitch · to mitch
3rd person singularmitches
Present participlemitching
Past simplemitched
Past participlemitched

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theymitch
he, she, itmitches

Past simpleLesson

all personsmitched

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave mitched
he, she, ithas mitched

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill mitch

Word family

1 related words
Derivedmitching

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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