Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Evil-doings; wickedness; villainy.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Same as
malicho .
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- noun Alternative form of
malicho .
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Examples
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Other spots again seem to abide their destiny, suggestive and impenetrable, “miching mallecho.”
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MAGINN for suggesting that _miching mallecho_, in _Hamlet_, Act III.
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QUOTATION: This is miching mallecho; it means mischief.
Quotations 1919
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I sometimes think that many of the gentle and pure-souled people who read this amiable writer go on their way through his pages without discerning this quiver, this ripple, this vibration, of "miching mallecho."
Suspended Judgments Essays on Books and Sensations John Cowper Powys 1917
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They over emphasize the "magnanimity" of his art, or they over emphasize its "miching-mallecho."
Visions and Revisions A Book of Literary Devotions John Cowper Powys 1917
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Marry, this is miching mallecho; it means mischief.
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Marry, this is miching mallecho; 16 that means mischief.
Act III. Scene II 1909
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The whole thing is a mystery, of which I can only say with Hamlet -- "miching mallecho; it means mischief."
Gallipoli Diary, Volume 2 Ian Hamilton 1900
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Verily this was "miching mallecho," as Hamlet says.
Fighting For Peace Henry Van Dyke 1892
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'"Miching mallecho; it means mischief," as Hamlet says,' the Dictator replied, 'and very much mischief too,' and he checked himself, pulling up his horse so suddenly that the creature fell back upon his haunches, and then flinging himself off the horse as lightly as if he were performing some equestrian exercise to win a prize in a competition.
The Dictator Justin McCarthy 1871
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