mitch

Verb

To pilfer; filch; steal.
To shrink or retire from view; lurk out of sight; skulk.
To be absent from (school) without a valid excuse; to play truant, to skive off.
To grumble secretly.
To pretend poverty.

Origin / Etymology

From Middle English mychen, müchen (“to rob, steal, pilfer”), from Old English *myċċan (“to steal”), from Proto-West Germanic *mukkjan, from Proto-Germanic *mukjaną (“to waylay, ambush, hide, rob”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)mūg-, *(s)mewg- (“swindler, thief”). Cognate with Scots mich, myche (“to steal”), Saterland Frisian mogeln (“to act secretively and deceitfully”), Dutch mokkelen (“to flatter”), Alemannic German mauchen (“to nibble secretively”), German mogeln (“to cheat”), German meucheln (“to assassinate”), Norwegian i mugg (“in secret, secretly”), Latin muger (“cheater”). Related to mooch.

Scrabble Score: 12

mitch: not valid in Scrabble (US) TWL Dictionary
mitch: not valid in Scrabble (MW) Merriam-Webster Dictionary
mitch: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 13

mitch: valid Words With Friends Word