Mitch
name, verb ·Uncommon ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 To pilfer; filch; steal. dialectal, transitive
- 2 To shrink or retire from view; lurk out of sight; skulk. dialectal, intransitive
- 3 To be absent from (school) without a valid excuse; to play truant, to skive off. Ireland, Wales, ambitransitive
""Did you ever mitch school?" he asked. "No. But I think this is what it would feel like.""
- 4 To grumble secretly. dialectal, intransitive
- 5 To pretend poverty. dialectal, intransitive
- 1 A diminutive of the male given name Mitchell.
"Walker – a Republican frontrunner in the race for Georgia Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock’s seat who has racked up high-profile endorsements from both former President Donald Trump and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell – released a statement to the AJC on his college trajectory."
Synonyms
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More examples"Mitch McConnell is everything people think Trump is, and has been in power for much longer."
Etymology
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.
Clipping of Mitchell.
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