mitching
Mitching is the art of quietly dodging something you're supposed to be doing — most commonly skipping school without permission.
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Mitching is the art of quietly dodging something you're supposed to be doing — most commonly skipping school without permission. Rooted in Irish and British regional dialect, it describes that sneaky act of playing truant, slipping away from class and hoping nobody notices. Beyond truancy, it can also mean skulking around or pretending to be worse off than you are. The word has a satisfyingly mischievous ring to it, and it's still alive in Irish English today, especially among younger speakers.
Half the class was mitching on the last Friday before summer break.
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(Ireland , UK, _, regional) Playing truant.
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(UK, _, dialectal) Pilfering; skulking.
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(UK, _, dialectal) A pretense of poverty.
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- go on the mitch83%
An Irish expression meaning to skip school or play truant — basically pulling a disappearing act on your teachers. If you're going on the mitch, you're not sick, you're just not showing up. Common in Irish schoolyard culture for generations, it captures that rebellious energy of ditching class to hang out somewhere more fun. Still widely understood in Ireland today, especially among older generations who used it growing up.
- mitch82%
(Ireland, Wales, ambitransitive) To be absent from (school) without a valid excuse; to play truant, to skive off.
- go on the mitch80%
(Ireland, idiom) to skip school; to play truant.