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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

miching en · ADJ

Meanings

  1. (US, dialectal, obsolete) hiding; skulking; cowardly or freeloading
    • On the other hand, for me, these stories too often forfeit their effectiveness as satires through Kafka's rather meaching compliance, his little-boylike respect and fear in the presence of the things he should satirize: […] 1950 [1947], Edmund Wilson, “A Dissenting Opinion on Kafka”, in Classics and Commercials: a Literary Chronicle of the Forties, page 391:

Forms

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meeching alternative lexicographic
more miching Degree=Cmp lexicographic
meaching alternative lexicographic
most miching Degree=Sup lexicographic
mitching alternative lexicographic