单词 | minch |
释义 | minchv. slang and English regional (chiefly south-western). Now archaic and rare. intransitive. = mitch v. 2b.First attested as a participial adjective. ΘΚΠ 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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