filch

1250–1300; Middle English filchen to attack (in a body), take as booty, Old English fylcian to marshal (troops), draw (soldiers) up in battle array, derivative of gefylce band of men; akin to folk

OTHER WORDS FROM filch

filcher, nounfilch·ing·ly, adverbun·filched, adjective

Words nearby filch

filasse, filate, Filatov flap, filature, filbert, filch, Filchner Ice Shelf, file, file band, file card, file clerk

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How to use filch in a sentence

DarkSide’s site on the dark web identified dozens of victims and described the confidential data it claimed to have filched from them.
The Colonial pipeline ransomware hackers had a secret weapon: self-promoting cybersecurity firms|Renee Dudley, Daniel Golden|May 24, 2021|MIT Technology Review
One evening, while filching food from an art-gallery buffet table, he’s accosted by a frosty, willowy blond, her hair marshalled into aggressive mermaid waves.
In the Oscar-Nominated The Man Who Sold His Skin, a Refugee Stakes His Future on a Tattoo|Stephanie Zacharek|April 9, 2021|Time
For Nixon, it was the Watergate break-in, designed to filch political plans of his 1972 foes.
How Iraq Became Obama’s War|Jeff Greenfield|July 6, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Come, Filch, you shall go with me into my own Room, and tell me the whole Story.
The Beggar's Opera|John Gay

Is it reasonable to suppose that a girl who could slyly filch my property would put it where it could be found?
The Court Jester|Cornelia Baker
There are two great risks in reading sermon books—a tendency to imitate the style and a temptation to filch the jewels.
The Young Priest's Keepsake|Michael Phelan
In his eagerness and greed he suspected nothing, but that on some pretext or other they were trying to filch from him his dues.
In Kings' Byways|Stanley J. Weyman
And she is to be allowed to filch it, as other widows filch china cups, and a silver teaspoon or two!
The Eustace Diamonds|Anthony Trollope

British Dictionary definitions for filch

filch

/ (fɪltʃ) /

verb

(tr) to steal or take surreptitiously in small amounts; pilfer

Derived forms of filch

filcher, noun

Word Origin for filch

C16 filchen to steal, attack, perhaps from Old English gefylce band of men

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