Definition of "mitching" [mitching]

• Present participle of mitch. (verb)
• Playing truant. (noun)

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• "I think mitching and boaning about Obama is a safe bet with any outdoorsman."
• "Throughout that forenoon, then, this bull bellowed nobly, still finding many very wicked flies about, so that two mitching boys, who meant to fish for minnows with a pin, were obliged to run away again."
• "For the village of Shoxford runs up on the rise, and straggles away from its burial-place, as a child from his school goes mitching."