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miching

miching adjective: hiding; skulking; cowardly or freeloading.

Adjective

miching (comparative more miching, superlative most miching)

  1. (US, dialectal, obsolete) hiding; skulking; cowardly or freeloading
    • On the other hand, for me, these stories too often forfeit their effectiveness as satires through Kafka's rather meaching compliance, his little-boylike respect and fear in the presence of the things he should satirize: […]1950 [1947], Edmund Wilson, “A Dissenting Opinion on Kafka”, in Classics and Commercials: a Literary Chronicle of the Forties, page 391

Forms of miching

comparativemore miching
superlativemost miching
alternative formmeeching
alternative formmeaching
alternative formmitching

Questions about miching

What does miching mean?
Miching means hiding; skulking; cowardly or freeloading.
What part of speech is miching?
Miching is an adjective.

Words near miching in the dictionary

  1. Michigoose
  2. Michigosling
  3. Michih
  4. Michika
  5. Michiko
  6. miching
  7. Michiyo
  8. michiyuki
  9. Michler
  10. Michler's ketone
  11. michman

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