mitch

Betekenis (Engels)

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.
4. (dialectal, intransitive) To grumble secretly.
5. (dialectal, intransitive) To pretend poverty.

Vertalings

ميتش

sécher

Uitgespreek as (IPA)

/mɪt͡ʃ/

Etimologie (Engels)

Geërf van Middle English: mychen

Geërf van Old English: *myċċan

Verwante met Skots: mich

Verwante met Saterfriesisch: mogeln

Verwante met Nederlands: mokkelen

Verwante met Switserse Duits: mauchen

Verwante met Duits: mogeln

Verwante met Duits: meucheln

Verwante met Noors: i mugg

Verwante met Latyn: muger

In summary

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.