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mitcher

mitcher is the alternative form of micher.

Meaning of micher

Noun

micher (plural michers)

  1. One who goes sneaking about for dishonest or improper purposes; one who skulks, or keeps out of sight; a pander or go-between.
  2. A thief; especially a secret or petty thief.
  3. One who feigns poverty.
  4. A truant; one who is absent without permission.
    • Shall the blessed sun of heaven prove a micher and eat blackberries?c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and...

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Forms of mitcher

pluralmitchers

Questions about mitcher

What is mitcher the alternative form of?
Mitcher is the alternative form of micher.

Words near mitcher in the dictionary

  1. Mitcheltrees
  2. Mitchem
  3. Mitchems
  4. Mitchener
  5. Mitcheners
  6. mitcher
  7. mitchers
  8. mitches
  9. Mitchif
  10. Mitchigamea
  11. Mitchill

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Adapted from Wiktionary: mitcher (page history and authors); micher (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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