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mitch¹

  • /mɪt͡ʃ/

Rhymes with -ɪtʃ

Where it comes from

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.

verb mitches · mitching · mitched · mich · mych

  1. dialectal, transitive To pilfer; filch; steal.
  2. dialectal, intransitive To shrink or retire from view; lurk out of sight; skulk.
  3. Ireland, Wales, ambitransitive 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."
  4. dialectal, intransitive To grumble secretly.
  5. dialectal, intransitive To pretend poverty.

Mitch²

  • /mɪt͡ʃ/

Sounds like mitch · Rhymes with -ɪtʃ

Where it comes from

Clipping of Mitchell.

proper noun Mitches

  1. A diminutive of the male given name Mitchell. Walker – a Republican frontrunner in the race for Georgia Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock’s seat who has racked up high-profile endorsements from both former President Donald Trump and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell – released a statement to the AJC on his college trajectory.

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: ben, mike, mich, mickey, hugh, mitchell, skip, skive, truant, shirk, abscond, bunk, dodge, flee, sneak, slink

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Chicago

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@misc{mitch_2026,
  title = {mitch},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/mitch},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}