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Definition of mitch in English: mitchverb mɪtʃ [no object]Irish informal Play truant from school. we're looking for three young fellows who've mitched from school with object he would mitch school and go down to the docks Example sentencesExamples - It is the young Thomas, mitching off school to play in the park or write poetry at home, that the Welsh prefer to remember.
- In the years to follow his attempts at mitching involved forging letters from his mother to the Patrician brother excusing his presence at school.
- ‘There was a little bit of punishment enforced because they were more interested in the fact that I had been mitching from school.’
- Playing truant from school is mitching in Ulster; twagging in East Yorkshire; slamming in Bradford; jigging in York; skidging in Paisley in Scotland; and skiving almost everywhere.
- If a child attends school regularly, that family should get more benefits than those families where the kids are constantly mitching.
Synonyms malinger, pretend to be ill, fake illness, feign illness
Origin Late Middle English (in the obsolete sense 'pilfer'): apparently from Old French muchier 'hide, lurk'; compare with mooch. |