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mitches

mitches is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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 mitches

What is mitches the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Mitches is the third-person singular simple present indicative of mitch.

Words near mitches in the dictionary

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

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