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单词 minch
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minchv.

Brit. /mɪn(t)ʃ/, U.S. /mɪn(t)ʃ/
Forms: 1800s– minch, 1800s– minchey, 1800s– minchy.
Origin: A variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymon: mitch v.
Etymology: Variant of mitch v.For the forms minchey , minchy see -y suffix2.
slang and English regional (chiefly south-western). Now archaic and rare.
intransitive. = mitch v. 2b.First attested as a participial adjective.
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society > education > learning > learner > [verb (intransitive)] > to play truant
to play truant1560
mitch1580
mooch1622
to trig it1796
plunk1808
minch1836
wag1847
to play hookey1848
to hop the wag1861
to play (the) wag1861
to hook Jack1877
to bag school1934
to go on the hop1959
1836 E. Howard Rattlin xliii There was no ‘minching malicho’, or anything like mischief.
1880 M. A. Courtney W. Cornwall Words in M. A. Courtney & T. Q. Couch Gloss. Words Cornwall 37/2 Minch, Minchy, to play the truant.
1895 J. Thomas Randigal Rhymes 4 That boy'd end badly... For aw would minchey.
1905 E. Phillpotts Secret Woman i. ii. 20 There's the shifty, silent sort, as ban't fond of company. You'll find them minching from school alone; and they keep their small secrets.
1940 M. Marples Public School Slang 120 In Eden Phillpotts' ‘The Human Boy’..minch is used..of stealthy movement—e.g. ‘We minched out after dark’.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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