miche

American  

[mich] / mɪtʃ /

verb (used without object)

British Dialect.

miched, miching

1. to lurk out of sight.

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Other Word Forms

• micher
  noun

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Etymology

Origin of miche

1175–1225; Middle English mychen, michen < Old French muchier to hide

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Example Sentences

See Examples For:

miche miching

What about my dreams, when I have this miche to feed?

From Salon ● Feb. 21, 2023

I’m a huge fan of their miche and campagne, a traditional sourdough.

From New York Times ● Nov. 17, 2016

I found him trying to miche, and nipped him as he was skulking off.

From In the King's Name The Cruise of the "Kestrel" by George Manville Fenn

I’m going to miche a bit.—Do it bleed?”

From Blue Jackets The Log of the Teaser by W.B. Handforth

Thumb, indeed, made up a Mulgar drone, which he used to buzz to himself when the Munza-mulgars came miching and mocking and peeping.

From The Three Mulla-mulgars by Walter De la Mare

I sometimes think that many of the gentle and pure-souled people who read this amiable writer go on their way through his pages without discerning this quiver, this ripple, this vibration, of "miching mallecho."

From Suspended Judgments Essays on Books and Sensations by John Cowper Powys

“Why, you caulking, miching lubber,” growled old Dick, “you had ten times as much trouble ’stowed on you as you deserved.

From Middy and Ensign by G. D. Rowlandson

Then with stealthily set crutch, putting it down as the wild beast sets down his miching paw, out sprang Truffey and after the master.

From Alec Forbes of Howglen by George MacDonald

"Marry, this is miching mallecho; it means mischief."

From Sigurd Our Golden Collie and Other Comrades of the Road by Katharine Lee Bates

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