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mitched

mitched is the simple past and past participle 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.

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Questions about mitched

What is mitched the simple past and past participle of?
Mitched is the simple past and past participle of mitch.

Words near mitched in the dictionary

  1. mitch
  2. Mitcham
  3. Mitchams
  4. mitchboard
  5. mitchboards
  6. mitched
  7. Mitchel
  8. Mitchel Troy
  9. Mitcheldean
  10. Mitchell
  11. Mitchell County

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Adapted from Wiktionary: mitched (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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