mitching
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
Verb
mitching
Noun
mitching (uncountable)
- (UK dialectal) Pilfering; skulking.
- (UK regional) Playing truant.
- 1974, GB Edwards, The Book of Ebenezer Le Page, New York 2007, p. 6:
- 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 [...].
- 1974, GB Edwards, The Book of Ebenezer Le Page, New York 2007, p. 6:
- (UK dialecta) A pretense of poverty.