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Mitching vs Ditching - What's the difference?

mitching | ditching |

As verbs the difference between mitching and ditching

is that mitching is present participle of lang=en while ditching is present participle of lang=en.

As nouns the difference between mitching and ditching

is that mitching is pilfering; skulking while ditching is a deliberate crash landing on the sea.

mitching

English

Alternative forms

* (l), (l)

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (-)
  • Pilfering; skulking.
  • 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 [...].
  • A pretense of poverty.

    • ditching

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • (aviation) A deliberate crash landing on the sea.
  • * 1990 , Operator's Manual for Army U-21G Aircraft
    • Model test and actual ditchings of various aircraft indicate that ditchings into the wall of water created by the major swell is roughly analogous to flying into a mountain.