thief
nounEtymology
Definitions
One who carries out a theft.
- water-thieves and land-thieves
One who steals another person's property, especially by stealth and without using force…
One who steals another person's property, especially by stealth and without using force or violence.
- Take heed to false harlots, and more, ye wot what. / If noise ye heare, / Looke all be cleare: / Least drabs doe noie thee, / And theeues destroie thee.
A waster in the snuff of a candle.
- But hear you, my Worthy Brethren: do not you, where you see a thief in the candle, call presently for an extinguisher[…]
The neighborhood
- synonymabstractor
- synonymappropriator
- synonymbagger
- synonymbooster
- synonymborrower
- synonymcribber
- synonymfaker
- synonymfilcher
- synonymflogger
- synonymheister
- synonymlarcener
- synonymlarcenist
- neighborthieve
- neighbordeceiver
- neighborsteal
- neighbortheft
- neighborgrabber
- neighborpossessor
- neighborseizer
- neighbortaker
- neighborvillain
- neighborburglar
- neighborcat burglar
- neighbormugger
Derived
a fair booty makes many a thief, comparison is the thief of joy, cricket thief spider, horse thief, joke thief, joule thief, liquor thief, opportunity makes a thief, opportunity makes the thief, oxygen thief, palm thief, panel thief, police and thief, procrastination is the thief of time, sampling thief, set a thief to catch a thief, sneak thief, stop thief, thick as thieves, thief ant, thiefdom, thief in law, thief in the night, thief knot, thieflike, thiefly, thief palm, thief-taker, thief tube, thievish, time thief, wage thief, water-thief, wheat thief, wine thief
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for thief. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA