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filcher

noun

Etymology

From filch + -er.

  1. derived from ġefylċe — “band of men, army, host”
  2. inherited from fylċian — “to marshal troops”
  3. inherited from filchen — “to pilfer, steal”
  4. suffixed as filcher — “filch + er”

Definitions

  1. One who filches

    One who filches; a thief.

    • But to return — Poor Paddy had a wife, The very plague and torment of his soul, The harbinger of battle and of strife, And, what was worse, the filcher of his bowl ;
    • Well, she sneaks around the world from Kiev to Carolina / She's a sticky-fingered filcher from Berlin down to Belize

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA