minch

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. özel isim A strait in Scotland, between the north-west Highlands and the northern Inner Hebrides.

   “The best Place for a Staple [of herrings], would be at Stornway, in one of the Lewis Islands, which is a good Harbour, and there are many good Hands; also it lies open to the Minch, a Sea above sixty Miles over to the main Land of Scotland, to the Southward of which lies the Isle of Sky, …”

2. özel isim A surname.
3. isim A nun.
4. fiil Alternative form of mince.
5. fiil Alternative form of mitch (“play truant from school”).

   “William Henry opened the gates for them along the return journey, and at the lodge accepted shamefacedly a penny and a promise of the bad end little boys came to who minched from school.”