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Mitching

noun, verb

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

Etymology

Etymology 1

From mitch + -ing.

Etymology 2

From mitch + -ing.

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