Mitching

Alternative forms

• miching, micking

Origin

From mitch + -ing.

Verb

1. Present participle of mitch

Full definition of mitching

Noun

1. (UK dialectal) Pilfering; skulking.
2. (UK regional) Playing truant.
• 1974, GB Edwards, The Book of Ebenezer Le Page, New York 2007, p. 6:As soon as she was out of the front gate, my father would say, ‘Come along, son: let's go mitchin'!’ and we'd go out to the shed at the back ....
3. (UK dialecta) A pretense of poverty.