Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who skulks or sneaks; a truant; a mean thief.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete One who skulks, or keeps out of sight; hence, a truant; an idler; a thief, etc.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun One who
skulks , or keeps out of sight. - noun A
thief .
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Examples
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Shall the blessed sun of heaven prove a micher and eat blackberries?
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None seem wholly dead words except the following eighteen: To _mammock_, tear; _mell_, meddle; _mose_, mourn; _micher_, truant; _mome_, fool;
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. XVI., December, 1880. Various
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Shall the blessed sun of heaven prove a micher and eat blackberries?
Act II. Scene IV. The First Part of King Henry the Fourth 1914
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Shall the blessed sun of heaven prove a micher and eat
The plant-lore & garden-craft of Shakespeare Henry Nicholson Ellacombe 1868
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“Most exquisite Chiffinch, thou art turned micher as well as padder — Canst both rob a man and kidnap him!”
Peveril of the Peak 1822
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Shaft the blessed sun of heaven prove a micher, and eat blackberries?
Characters of Shakespeare's Plays William Hazlitt 1804
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Shall the blessed sun of heaven prove a micher and eat blackberries?
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May the divil fly away with you, you micher from Munster, and make celery-sauce of your rotten limbs, you mealy-mouthed tub of guts. "
Irish Wit and Humor Anecdote Biography of Swift, Curran, O'Leary and O'Connell Anonymous
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[ 'Shall the blessed _Sun_ of _Heaven_ prove a micher, and _eat blackberries_'?
The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakspere Unfolded Delia Bacon 1835
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"Most exquisite Chiffinch, thou art turned micher as well as padder --
Peveril of the Peak Walter Scott 1801
hernesheir commented on the word micher
"Shall the blessed sun of heaven prove a micher and eat blackberries? A question not to be asked."
Shakespeare, King Henry IV, Part 1, II. iv. line 454.
September 24, 2009
sionnach commented on the word micher
Well, yeah. Because it makes no sense at all.
September 24, 2009
hernesheir commented on the word micher
A former girlfriend from NY used a Yiddish word I can't find that sounded similar - every time she saw a scab being picked, or a thread being pulled at that might threaten to "unravel the whole thing", she'd say "Don't micher it!" A person who "can't leave things alone" was a "micherer". I'd like to learn the conventional spelling and etymology, whether Germanic or otherwise.
September 24, 2009
qms commented on the word micher
The Judgement by Bosch is a picture
That study can always make richer
So look and beware
Of characters there,
The lustful, the glutton, the micher.
November 18, 2017