mitch

Signification (Anglais)

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.

Concepts

sécher

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/mɪt͡ʃ/

Étymologie (Anglais)

Hérité de moyen anglais: mychen

Hérité de ancien anglais: *myċċan

Appartenant à écossais: mich

Appartenant à saterlandais: mogeln

Appartenant à néerlandais: mokkelen

Appartenant à suisse allemand: mauchen

Appartenant à allemand: mogeln

Appartenant à allemand: meucheln

Appartenant à norvégien: i mugg

Appartenant à latin: 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.