Mitching

noun, verb

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Pilfering; skulking. UK, dialectal, uncountable
  2. 2
    Playing truant. Ireland, UK, regional, uncountable

    "As soon as she was out of the front gate, my father would say, ‘Come along, son: let's go mitchin'!’ and we'd go out to the shed at the back [...]."

  3. 3
    A pretense of poverty. UK, dialectal, uncountable
Verb
  1. 1
    present participle and gerund of mitch form-of, gerund, participle, present

Synonyms

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hookytruancy

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"As soon as she was out of the front gate, my father would say, ‘Come along, son: let's go mitchin'!’ and we'd go out to the shed at the back [...]."

Etymology

From mitch + -ing.

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