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meech

meech is the alternative form of mitch.

Meaning of mitch

Verb

mitch (third-person singular simple present mitches, present participle mitching, simple past and past participle mitched)

  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."1983, Bernard MacLaverty, Cal, Chapter 4. (p.115 in the 1998 Vintage paperback edition)
  4. (dialectal, intransitive) To grumble secretly.
  5. (dialectal, intransitive) To pretend poverty.

See all 6 meanings of mitch

Forms of meech

third-person singular presentmeeches
present participlemeeching
past participlemeeched
pastmeeched

Words formed from meech

Questions about meech

What is meech the alternative form of?
Meech is the alternative form of mitch.

Words near meech in the dictionary

  1. meeans
  2. meeant
  3. meebos
  4. Meece
  5. meeces
  6. meech
  7. meeched
  8. meecher
  9. meechers
  10. meeches
  11. meeching

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Adapted from Wiktionary: meech (page history and authors); mitch (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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