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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. Evil-doings; wickedness; villainy.

Wiktionary

  1. n. Alternative form of malicho.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. Same as malicho.

Examples

  • “Other spots again seem to abide their destiny, suggestive and impenetrable, “miching mallecho.””

    Memories and Portraits

  • “MAGINN for suggesting that _miching mallecho_, in _Hamlet_, Act III.”

    Notes and Queries, Number 62, January 4, 1851

  • “QUOTATION: This is miching mallecho; it means mischief.”

    Quotations

  • “I sometimes think that many of the gentle and pure-souled people who read this amiable writer go on their way through his pages without discerning this quiver, this ripple, this vibration, of "miching mallecho.”

    Suspended Judgments Essays on Books and Sensations

  • “They over emphasize the "magnanimity" of his art, or they over emphasize its "miching-mallecho.”

    Visions and Revisions A Book of Literary Devotions

  • “Marry, this is miching mallecho; it means mischief.”

    Act III. Scene II. Hamlet, Prince of Denmark

  • “Marry, this is miching mallecho; 16 that means mischief.”

    Act III. Scene II

  • “The whole thing is a mystery, of which I can only say with Hamlet -- "miching mallecho; it means mischief.”

    Gallipoli Diary, Volume 2

  • “Verily this was "miching mallecho," as Hamlet says.”

    Fighting For Peace

  • “"Miching mallecho; it means mischief," as Hamlet says,' the Dictator replied, 'and very much mischief too,' and he checked himself, pulling up his horse so suddenly that the creature fell back upon his haunches, and then flinging himself off the horse as lightly as if he were performing some equestrian exercise to win a prize in a competition.”

    The Dictator

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