mitch

FREQ #4333

vi. [方言]逃学

发音

其它 /mɪt͡ʃ/

词形变化

mitched mitches 三单 mitches mitching mitching 现在分词 mitched 过去式 mitched 过去分词

别名

minch mich mych myche meech meach miche

释义与例句

v.
  1. 1.

    To pilfer; filch; steal.

    方言 及物
  2. 2.

    To shrink or retire from view; lurk out of sight; skulk.

    方言 不及物
  3. 3.

    To be absent from (school) without a valid excuse; to play truant, to skive off.

    爱尔兰 及物/不及物

    "Did you ever mitch school?" he asked. "No. But I think this is what it would feel like."

    John said he was going to mitch the last lesson today.

    I was young once. God, the things we used to get up to in the seminary. Me and a bunch of the lads there, once we mitched off to see a Dana concert.

  4. 4.

    To grumble secretly.

    方言 不及物
  5. 5.

    To pretend poverty.

    方言 不及物

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词源

From Middle English mychen, müchen (“to rob, steal, pilfer”), from Old English *myċċan (“to steal”), from Proto-West Germanic *mukkjan, from Proto-Germanic *mukjaną (“to waylay, ambush, hide, rob”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)mūg-, *(s)mewg- (“swindler, thief”). Cognate with Scots mich, myche (“to steal”), Saterland Frisian mogeln (“to act secretively and deceitfully”), Dutch mokkelen (“to flatter”), Alemannic German mauchen (“to nibble secretively”), German mogeln (“to cheat”), German meucheln (“to assassinate”), Norwegian i mugg (“in secret, secretly”), Latin muger (“cheater”). Related to mooch.

来源:wiktionary