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▪ I. mitching, ppl. a. Obs. exc. dial.|ˈmɪtʃɪŋ|
Also 6–9 miching, 7 micking, meiching, 8–9 meeching.
[f. mitch v. + -ing2.]
Pilfering, skulking, truant-playing, pretending poverty.
1581Lambarde Eiren. ii. vi. (1588) 196 Either miching or mightie theeues. 1592Sylvester Tri. Faith iv. v, Here, myching Jonas (sunk in sudden Storm) Of his Deliverance findes a Fish the mean. 1609Bp. W. Barlow Answ. Nameless Cath. 68 A miching Curre, biting her behinde, when she cannot turne backe. 1614Dyke Myst. Selfe-deceit (1615) 40 They are no miching and scraping niggards, but rather wasteful and riotous prodigals. 1621T. Williamson tr. Goulart's Wise Vieillard 72 What myching couetousnesse is it, not to bee willing to part with somewhat of that which we haue. a1625Fletcher Noble Gent. i. i, O my meiching varlet—I'll fit ye as I live. 1766J. Adams Diary 2 Jan., Wks. 1850 II. 173 Meeching, sordid, stupid creatures,..they deserve to be made slaves to their own negroes! 1857Kingsley Two Y. Ago I. 116 You loafing, miching, wrecking crow-keepers. 1866Blackmore C. Nowell li, Not even a shark's fin, or a mitching dolphin. 1877― Erema xliii, Two miching boys, who meant to fish for minnows with a pin. 1939Dylan Thomas Map of Love 14 When I whistled with mitching boys through a reservoir park.
▪ II. mitching, vbl. n. Obs. exc. dial.|ˈmɪtʃɪŋ|
Also 4–9 miching, 7 micking.
[f. mitch v. + -ing1.]
Pilfering, skulking, playing truant. Also Comb., as mitching-time. † in mitching wise: in a skulking or surreptitious manner.
1390Gower Conf. II. 347 For noman of his conseil knoweth; What he mai gete of his Michinge. c1480Henryson Fable Fox & Wolf 5 This Fox..durst no more with miching intermell. 1577Stanyhurst Descr. Irel. in Holinshed (1808) VI. Ep. Ded., His historie in mitching wise wandred through sundrie hands. 1875Blackmore Alice Lorraine I. xvii. 183 She laid upon Hilary all the burden of this lengthened mitching-time. 1889P. H. Gosse in Longm. Mag. Mar. 517 We called it [sc. playing truant] ‘miching’, pronouncing the i in ‘mich’ long, as in ‘mile’, whereas in Devonshire the same word, in the same sense, is pronounced with the i short, as in ‘mill’. 1891S. Mostyn Curatica 67 The schoolboy's miching is the clergyman's Mondayishness. 1894Q. Rev. July 136 These servants..were skilful in devising means of interrupting the performance, or miching from it to the nearest tavern. |