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miche

miche is the obsolete 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

Questions about miche

What is miche the obsolete form of?
Miche is the obsolete form of mitch.

Words near miche in the dictionary

  1. Michalskis
  2. Michas
  3. Michaud
  4. Michauds
  5. Michaël
  6. miche
  7. Micheal
  8. Micheals
  9. Michealses
  10. miched
  11. Micheel

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Adapted from Wiktionary: miche (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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