See mitch in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"etymology_text": "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.",
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"To pilfer; filch; steal."
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"(transitive, dialectal) To pilfer; filch; steal."
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"To shrink or retire from view; lurk out of sight; skulk."
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"ref": "1983, Bernard MacLaverty, Cal, Chapter 4. (p.115 in the 1998 Vintage paperback edition)",
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},
{
"text": "John said he was going to mitch the last lesson today."
},
{
"ref": "1996, Graham Linehan, Arthur Mathews, \"Old Grey Whistle Theft\" (Father Ted TV episode)",
"text": "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."
}
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"To be absent from (school) without a valid excuse; to play truant, to skive off."
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"(Ireland, Wales, transitive, intransitive) To be absent from (school) without a valid excuse; to play truant, to skive off."
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"To grumble secretly."
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"(intransitive, dialectal) To grumble secretly."
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"To pretend poverty."
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"(intransitive, dialectal) To pretend poverty."
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"word": "mitching"
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"To pilfer; filch; steal."
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"(transitive, dialectal) To pilfer; filch; steal."
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"(intransitive, dialectal) To shrink or retire from view; lurk out of sight; skulk."
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"ref": "1983, Bernard MacLaverty, Cal, Chapter 4. (p.115 in the 1998 Vintage paperback edition)",
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},
{
"text": "John said he was going to mitch the last lesson today."
},
{
"ref": "1996, Graham Linehan, Arthur Mathews, \"Old Grey Whistle Theft\" (Father Ted TV episode)",
"text": "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."
}
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"To be absent from (school) without a valid excuse; to play truant, to skive off."
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"(Ireland, Wales, transitive, intransitive) To be absent from (school) without a valid excuse; to play truant, to skive off."
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"To grumble secretly."
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"(intransitive, dialectal) To grumble secretly."
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"(intransitive, dialectal) To pretend poverty."
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