filch
Pronunciation Verb
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Pronunciation Verb
filch (filches, present participle filching; past and past participle filched)
- (transitive) To illegally take possession of (especially items of low value); to pilfer, to steal.
- Hey, someone filched my wallet!
- 1593, Tho[mas] Nashe, “The Arrainment and Execution of the Third Letter”, in The Apologie of Pierce Pennilesse. Or, Strange Newes, of the Intercepting Certaine Letters: […], Printed at London: By Iohn Danter, […], OCLC 222196160 ↗; republished as John Payne Collier, editor, Strange Newes, of the Intercepting Certaine Letters […] (Miscellaneous Tracts; Temp. Eliz. and Jac. I), [London: s.n., 1870], OCLC 906587369 ↗, page 46 ↗:
- You would foiſt in non cauſam pro cauſa ["I do not bring into question"], have it thought your flight from your olde companions, obſcuritie and ſilence, was onely, with Æneas, to carry your father on your backe through the fire of slander#English|ſlaunder, and by that shift, with the false plea of patience, unjuſtly driven from his kingdome, filch a way the harts of the Queenes liege people!
- See also Thesaurus:steal
filch (plural filches)
- Something which has been filched or stolen.
- An act of filching; larceny, theft.
- (obsolete) A person who filches; a filcher, a pilferer, a thief.
- (obsolete) A hooked#Adjective|hooked stick used to filch objects.
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