miching

English

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miching (comparative more miching, superlative most miching)

  1. (US, dialectal, obsolete) hiding; skulking; cowardly
    • 1950 [1947], Edmund Wilson, “A Dissenting Opinion on Kafka”, in Classics and Commercials: a Literary Chronicle of the Forties, page 391:
      On the other hand, for me, these stories too often forfeit their effectiveness as satires through Kafka's rather meaching compliance, his little-boylike respect and fear in the presence of the things he should satirize: […]

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for miching in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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