Definition of "mitch"

mitch

/mɪt͡ʃ/

verb
third-person singular simple present mitches, present participle mitching, simple past and past participle mitched
1. (transitive, dialectal) To pilfer; filch; steal.
2. (intransitive, dialectal) To shrink or retire from view; lurk out of sight; skulk.
3. (Ireland, Wales) To be absent from school without a valid excuse; to play truant.
  Quotations
  "Did you ever mitch school?" he asked. "No. But I think this is what it would feel like."
  1983, Bernard MacLaverty, Cal, Chapter 4. (p.115 in the 1998 Vintage paperback edition)
4. (intransitive, dialectal) To grumble secretly.
5. (intransitive, dialectal) To pretend poverty.