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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

Why how now, signior gull! are you turn'd filcher of late!

From Every Man in His Humor by Jonson, Ben

His kneading tub and his pavin are the two misteries of his occupation and he is a filcher by his trade, but the miller is before him.

From Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters by Earle, John

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 Isham, Frederic Stewart