different between bitching vs mitching

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?b?t???/

Adjective

bitching (superlative bitchingest)

1. (slang) Excellent; outstanding.
2. (slang, less common) Awful, terrible.

   Just my bitching luck.

Alternative forms

• bitchin'
• bitchin
• bitchen

Verb

bitching

1. present participle of bitch

Derived terms

• Bitching Betty

Noun

bitching (plural bitchings)

1. (vulgar, colloquial) A spiteful criticism or complaint.
   • 1997, Gary Russell, Deadfall

     Grierson's innocence - although Townsend would say it was naivety – was rather sweet and attractive amid the sour and petty bitchings of the other women.

English

Alternative forms

• miching, micking

Etymology

From mitch +? -ing.

Verb

mitching

1. present participle of mitch

Noun

mitching (uncountable)

1. (Britain dialectal) Pilfering; skulking.
2. (Britain regional) 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 [...].

3. (Britain dialectal) A pretense of poverty.