filch
verb (used with object)
to steal (especially something of small value); pilfer.
filcher
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a word derived from
filch.
Example Sentences
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For years, reluctant sharers only had to fend off the occasional fry filcher, or the girlfriend who virtuously passes on dessert — and then plants her fork in her companion’s creme brulee.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 23, 2015
No thimblerigging rapparee, No jobber in kidnappery No filcher I !
From Time Magazine Archive
Only the cry of a diving night-bird startled the stillness of the tranquil air; a rapacious filcher that quickly rose, and swept onward through the sea of night.
From Under the Rose by Frederic Stewart Isham
Said Mohi and Yoomy in a breath, "Who sought your opinion, philosopher? you filcher from old Bardianna, and monger of maxims!"
From Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. I by Herman Melville
Why how now, signior gull! are you turn'd filcher of late!
From Every Man in His Humor by Ben Jonson
