mitch

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//mɪt͡ʃ//

To pilfer; filch; steal.

verbo

1
To pilfer; filch; steal.
2
To shrink or retire from view; lurk out of sight; skulk.
3
To be absent from (school) without a valid excuse; to play truant, to skive off.
"Did you ever mitch school?" he asked. "No. But I think this is what it would feel like."
John said he was going to mitch the last lesson today.
I was young once. God, the things we used to get up to in the seminary. Me and a bunch of the lads there, once we mitched off to see a Dana concert.
4
To grumble secretly.
5
To pretend poverty.

Etimologia

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 flatter”), Alemannic German mauchen (“to nibble secretively”), German mogeln (“to cheat”), German meucheln (“to assassinate”), Norwegian i mugg (“in secret, secretly”), Latin muger (“cheater”). Related to mooch.

Forme

passato: mitched
participio passato: mitched
participio presente: mitching
3ª persona singolare: mitches

misunderstand · To understand incorrectly, while believing one has understood…misunderstanding · A mistake as to the meaning of something or a specific point…misunderstood · Not comprehended correctly.

mitch · To pilfer; filch; steal.

Mitch · A diminutive of the male given name Mitchell.Mitchell · A surname transferred from the given name.Mitsuko · A female given name from Japanese.

Le pagine vicine — L'ordine alfabetico segue le regole della lingua, non il valore dei byte: un accento distingue soltanto due parole per il resto identiche, e lo spagnolo tratta la Ñ come una lettera a sé.