Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of. skulking or sneaking; the act of pilfering or cheating.
- Skulking; sneaking; dodging; pilfering; mean.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective colloq. Hiding; skulking; cowardly.
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- adjective US, dialectal, obsolete
hiding ;skulking ;cowardly
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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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In instances easy to be cited, (but that there were miching malecho in the deed,) insult has been added to injury, and the anguish depicted in the face of the mortified man of letters been assuaged by friendly advice to
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 343, May 1844 Various
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One answer always served JOHN when questioned by his master -- “Where have you been miching now, you young rascal?”
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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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With Leo Dillon and a boy named Mahony I planned a day's miching.
Dubliners James Joyce 1911
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Marry, this is miching mallecho; 16 that means mischief.
Act III. Scene II 1909
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