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mitching en · NOUN

Etymology

From mitch + -ing.

Meanings

  1. (UK, dialectal, uncountable) Pilfering; skulking.
  2. (Ireland, UK, regional, uncountable) Playing truant.
    • 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, published 2007, page 6:
  3. (UK, dialectal, uncountable) A pretense of poverty.

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mitching en · VERB

Etymology

From mitch + -ing.

Meanings

  1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present) present participle and gerund of mitch
    form of mitch

Forms

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