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Definitions

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. v. To take (something, especially something of little value) in a furtive manner; snitch. See Synonyms at steal.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. To steal, especially in a small, sly way; pilfer; take from another on a petty scale, as for the supply of a present need, or in an underhand way, as by violation of trust or good faith.
  2. n. A stick with a hook at the end, used in filching articles from windows, clothes-lines, etc.
  3. n. An act of theft; also, the thing stolen.
  4. n. One who filches or is given to filching; a filcher.

Wiktionary

  1. v. transitive To steal, to illegally take possession of.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. v. To steal or take privily (commonly, that which is of little value); to pilfer.

WordNet 3.0

  1. v. make off with belongings of others

Etymologies

  1. From Middle English filchen ("to steal, pilfer"), of uncertain origin. Perhaps related to Old English fylcian ("to marshal troops"), Old English ġefylce ("band of men, army, host"). Related to folk. (Wiktionary)
  2. Middle English filchen. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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synonyms (11)

Words with the same meaning

  1. pilfer
  2. steamy
  1. Cockney
  2. steal
  1. jack
  2. slang
  1. half-inch
  2. flog
  1. rhyming
  2. sense
  1. knock off

hypernyms (1)

Words that are more generic or abstract

  1. steal

same context (22)

Words that are found in similar contexts

  1. pilfer
  2. vampires'
  3. plantation-style
  4. six-bedroom
  1. shut-up
  2. antebellum
  3. doingthe
  4. a-month
  1. georgian-style
  2. half-furnished
  3. seignorial
  4. lordliest
  1. temple-like
  2. rainswept
  3. white-pillared
  4. locater
  1. highly-ornamented
  2. jolly-looking
  3. brown-stone
  4. dreary-looking
  1. postbox
  2. ebb-tide

rhymes (3)

Words with the same terminal sound

  1. milch
  1. pilch
  1. zilch

reverse dictionary (18)

Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. drib
  2. Bob
  3. pilfer
  1. prig
  2. secrete
  3. nobble
  1. abstract
  2. mooch
  3. swipe
  1. nim
  2. prog
  3. purloin
  1. embezzle
  2. fake
  3. finger
  1. pick
  2. pull
  3. steal

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  1. crime
  1. stealing
  1. old english origin

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  • bilby
    'Now, who should there in Heaven be
    To fill your place, ma très-douce mie? 10
    To reach that spot I little care!
    There all the droning priests are met;
    All the old cripples, too, are there
    That unto shrines and altars cling
    To filch the Peter-pence we bring';— 15
    Said Aucassin to Nicolette.
    - Edmund Clarence Stedman, 'Provençal Lovers'. Sep 17, 2009

  • yarb Citation on craw. Oct 2, 2008

  • yarb ...he fell
    into the habitual practice of
    filching his Sunday supper from the fridge.

    This hebdomadary beano was quite
    contary to the expectations of
    the establishment...

    - Peter Reading, Inter-City, from Fiction, 1979 Jun 26, 2008

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