mitch
/mɪt͡ʃ/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.91 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
1
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
A diminutive of the male given name Mitchell.
Example Sentences
- ""Did you ever mitch school?" he asked. "No. But I think this is what it would feel like.""
- "John said he was going to mitch the last lesson today."
- "I was young once. God, the things we used to get up to in the seminary. Me and a bunch of the lads there, once we mitched off to see a Dana concert."
- "Walker – a Republican frontrunner in the race for Georgia Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock’s seat who has racked up high-profile endorsements from both former President Donald Trump and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell – released a statement to the AJC on his college trajectory."
Etymology
From Middle English mychen, müchen (“to rob, steal, pilfer”), from Old English *mȳċan (“to steal”), from Proto-West Germanic *mūkijan, from Proto-Germanic *mūkijaną (“to waylay, ambush, hide, rob”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)mūg-, *(s)mewg- (“swindler, thief”). Cognate with Scots mich, myche (“to steal”), Saterland Frisian mogeln (“to act secretively and deceitfully”), Dutch mokkelen (“to flatter”), Alemannic German mauchen (“to nibble secretively”), German mogeln (“to cheat”), German meucheln (“to assassinate”), Norwegian i mugg (“in secret, secretly”), Latin muger (“cheater”). Related to mooch.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: mychen, *mȳċan, *mūkijan, *mūk-, *(s)mūg-