mitch

Pronunciation: /mɪt͡ʃ/

The English word “mitch” has 5 meanings listed here.

verb

To pilfer; filch; steal.
To shrink or retire from view; lurk out of sight; skulk.
To be absent from (school) without a valid excuse; to play truant, to skive off.
To grumble secretly.
To pretend poverty.

Etymology

From Middle English mychen, müchen (“to rob, steal, pilfer”), from Old English *mȳċan (“to steal”), from Proto-West Germanic *mūkijan, from Proto-Germanic *mūkijaną (“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…

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