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单词 mitch
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Definition of mitch in English:

mitch

verb mɪtʃ
[no object]Irish informal
  • Play truant from school.

    〈非正式,主爱尔兰〉逃学,逃课

    we're looking for three young fellows who've mitched from school

    我们正在找三个逃学的小家伙。

    with object he would mitch school and go down to the docks

    他会逃课到码头去。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • It is the young Thomas, mitching off school to play in the park or write poetry at home, that the Welsh prefer to remember.
    • In the years to follow his attempts at mitching involved forging letters from his mother to the Patrician brother excusing his presence at school.
    • ‘There was a little bit of punishment enforced because they were more interested in the fact that I had been mitching from school.’
    • Playing truant from school is mitching in Ulster; twagging in East Yorkshire; slamming in Bradford; jigging in York; skidging in Paisley in Scotland; and skiving almost everywhere.
    • If a child attends school regularly, that family should get more benefits than those families where the kids are constantly mitching.
    Synonyms
    malinger, pretend to be ill, fake illness, feign illness

Origin

Late Middle English (in the obsolete sense 'pilfer'): apparently from Old French muchier 'hide, lurk'; compare with mooch.

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