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Mitched vs Itched - What's the difference?

mitched | itched |

As verbs the difference between mitched and itched

is that mitched is (mitch) while itched is (itch).

mitched

English

Verb

(head)
  • (mitch)

    • mitch

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (l), (l), (l), (l), (l) * (l) (obsolete)

    Verb

    (es)
  • (dialectal) To pilfer; filch; steal.
  • (dialectal) To shrink or retire from view; lurk out of sight; skulk.
  • (Ireland, Wales) To be absent from school without a valid excuse; to play truant.
    • John said he was going to mitch the last lesson today.
  • (dialectal) To grumble secretly.
  • (dialectal) To pretend poverty.

    • Synonyms

    * bunk off * skive

    Derived terms

    * (l) * (l) * (l)

    itched

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (itch)

    • itch

    English

    (wikipedia itch)

    Alternative forms

    * (noun) (l), (l), (l) (in Scotland)

    Noun

    (es)
  • A sensation felt on an area of the skin that causes a person or animal to want to scratch.
  • A desire or want.
  • *

    • Derived terms

    * barber's itch * itchy * jock itch * seven-year itch

    Verb

    (es)
  • To feel itchy; to feel a need to be scratched.
  • *
    • Capulet: ... Speak not, reply not, do not answer me; / My fingers itch . Wife, we scarce thought us blest / That God had lent us but this only child; / But now I see this one is one too much, / And that we have a curse in having her: / Out on her, hilding!
  • To want or desire.
    • He started learning to drive and he has been itching for opportunities to practice ever since.
  • To cause to feel an itch.
  • (colloquial) To scratch or rub so as to relieve an itch.
  • * 2002 , M D Huddleston, Missing Paige :
    • "What makes you suspect him?" Max asked as he itched his neck.
  • * 2002 January 4, "Cyd" (username), Itching'', in alt.support.mult-sclerosis, ''Usenet :
    • I have to take both shoes and socks off! If I go bare foot I'm ok! I also get itching on my r/palm of my hand. I itch it so much that it's raw!
  • * 2003 November 21, "Jim Patterson" (username), Behavior Therapy for Itchy Clothes?'', in alt.support.ocd, ''Usenet :
    • Basically I go through a half hour of trying to figure out of it is an fake OCD itch or a regular itch before I itch it (if I determine it's a "fake" itch, then I try not to itch it).
  • * 2003 , Ray Emerson, The Riddle of Cthulhu :
    • Ulysses thumped his side and itched his back side, then slipped into his car.
  • * 2004 , Philip Smucker, Al Qaeda's Great Escape: The Military and the Media on Terror's Trail :
    • But when we asked more about the famous man whose specter still commanded the heights, the guard just sneered at me, pointed his gun back toward the road with one hand, and itched his chin with the other.

    Derived terms

    * make one's teeth itch

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