mitch

present singular third person mitches · participle present mitching · participle past mitched · past mitched · alternative mich · alternative mych · alternative myche · alternative meech · alternative meach · alternative obsolete miche

1. dialectaltransitiveTo pilfer; filch; steal.
2. dialectalintransitiveTo shrink or retire from view; lurk out of sight; skulk.
3. IrelandWalesambitransitiveTo be absent from (school) without a valid excuse; to play truant, to skive off.

   John said he was going to mitch the last lesson today.

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   "Did you ever mitch school?" he asked. "No. But I think this is what it would feel like."

   1983, Bernard MacLaverty, Cal, Chapter 4. (p.115 in the 1998 Vintage paperback edition)

   I was young once. God, the things we used to get up to in the seminary. Me and a bunch of the lads there, once we mitched off to see a Dana concert.

   1996, Graham Linehan, Arthur Mathews, "Old Grey Whistle Theft" (Father Ted TV episode)

4. dialectalintransitiveTo grumble secretly.
5. dialectalintransitiveTo pretend poverty.

plural Mitches

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.

   2021 December 17, Rachel Janfaza, “Herschel Walker campaign deletes a false claim saying the Republican candidate for Senate graduated from college”, in CNN