mitch

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.

Pronounced as (IPA)

/mɪt͡ʃ/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: mychen

Inherited from Old English: *myċċan

Cognate with Scots: mich

Cognate with Saterland Frisian: mogeln

Cognate with Dutch: mokkelen

Cognate with Swiss German: mauchen

Cognate with German: mogeln

Cognate with German: meucheln

Cognate with Norwegian: i mugg

Cognate with 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.

Translations

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