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Mitching vs Pitching - What's the difference?

mitching | pitching |

As verbs the difference between mitching and pitching

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

As nouns the difference between mitching and pitching

is that mitching is pilfering; skulking while pitching is the act of throwing or casting.

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.

    • pitching

    English

    Verb

    (head)
    • As the pilot fought the hijackers for control the aeroplane was pitching wildly.

    See also

    * pitching a tent

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of throwing or casting.
    • wild pitching in baseball
  • The rough paving of a street to a grade with blocks of stone.
    • (Mayhew)
  • (engineering) A facing of stone laid upon a bank to prevent wear by tides or currents.
    • (Webster 1913)