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filch
/ fɪltʃ /
verb
- tr to steal or take surreptitiously in small amounts; pilfer
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Derived Forms
- ˈfilcher, noun
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Other Words From
- filcher noun
- filching·ly adverb
- un·filched adjective
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Word History and Origins
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Word History and Origins
Origin of filch1
C16 filchen to steal, attack, perhaps from Old English gefylce band of men
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Example Sentences
For Nixon, it was the Watergate break-in, designed to filch political plans of his 1972 foes.
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Come, Filch, you shall go with me into my own Room, and tell me the whole Story.
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Is it reasonable to suppose that a girl who could slyly filch my property would put it where it could be found?
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There are two great risks in reading sermon books—a tendency to imitate the style and a temptation to filch the jewels.
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In his eagerness and greed he suspected nothing, but that on some pretext or other they were trying to filch from him his dues.
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And she is to be allowed to filch it, as other widows filch china cups, and a silver teaspoon or two!
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