mitch

Senso (Inglese)

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.

Traduzioni

ميتش

sécher

Pronunciato come (IPA)

/mɪt͡ʃ/

Etimologia (Inglese)

Ereditato da inglese medio: mychen

Ereditato da inglese antico: *myċċan

Affine scozzese: mich

Affine saterfriesisch: mogeln

Affine olandese: mokkelen

Affine tedesco svizzero: mauchen

Affine tedesco: mogeln

Affine tedesco: meucheln

Affine norvegese: i mugg

Affine latino: 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.