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- verb Present participle of
mitch . - noun Playing
truant .
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Examples
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I think mitching and boaning about Obama is a safe bet with any outdoorsman.
Leave It At The Dock 2009
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I think mitching and boaning about Obama is a safe bet with any outdoorsman.
Leave It At The Dock 2009
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For the village of Shoxford runs up on the rise, and straggles away from its burial-place, as a child from his school goes mitching.
Erema Richard Doddridge 2004
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Throughout that forenoon, then, this bull bellowed nobly, still finding many very wicked flies about, so that two mitching boys, who meant to fish for minnows with a pin, were obliged to run away again.
Erema Richard Doddridge 2004
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"Eh, wee fellow, is it mitching from school you are?"
The Wind Bloweth Brian Oswald Donn-Byrne 1908
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The lady in the corner challenged Mr. Hansombody to deny that our town was deteriorating -- the rising generation more mischievous than its parents, and given to mitching from school, and cigarette smoking, if not to worse.
The White Wolf and Other Fireside Tales Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903
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"Yes, but what chance should we stand of that when every one will know we're mitching?"
Follow My leader The Boys of Templeton Talbot Baines Reed 1872
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For the village of Shoxford runs up on the rise, and straggles away from its burial-place, as a child from his school goes mitching.
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Throughout that forenoon, then, this bull bellowed nobly, still finding many very wicked flies about, so that two mitching boys, who meant to fish for minnows with a pin, were obliged to run away again.
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"Halt!" said Gethin, bringing his fist down so heavily on the table that the tea-things jingled, "not a word against the old man -- the best father that ever walked, and I was the worst boy on Garthowen slopes, driving the chickens into the water, shooing the geese over the hedges, riding the horses full pelt down the stony roads, setting fire to the gorse bushes, mitching from school, and making the boys laugh in chapel; no wonder the old man turned me away."
Garthowen A Story of a Welsh Homestead Allen Raine 1885
bilby commented on the word mitching
When I whistled with mitching boys through a reservoir park
Where at night we stoned the cold and cuckoo
Lovers in the dirt of their leafy beds,
The shade of their trees was a word of many shades
And a lamp of lightning for the poor in the dark;
Now my saying shall be my undoing,
And every stone I wind off like a reel.
- Dylan Thomas, 'Once It Was In The Colour Of Saying'.
October 23, 2008