filch

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

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  • Those recitals were a matter of prestige for the filch, because you can't rez art song. —  Archform: Beauty by L. E. Modessit Jr.
  • Rumors about the filch orgies came up, but private was private so long as no one got hurt. —  Archform: Beauty by L. E. Modessit Jr.
  • Northside's production; eastside's transport and sariman housing; southside is filch, wish-filch, and upper sariman. —  Archform: Beauty by L. E. Modessit Jr.
  • But the slick problems cause street problems, and big slick problems cause big street problems You think it's a slick problem or a filch one I don't know. —  Archform: Beauty by L. E. Modessit Jr.
  • Why The Southern Diversion is nothing more than filch-food. —  Archform: Beauty by L. E. Modessit Jr.
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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Middle English filchen.

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  1. from Middle English filchen, steal, of obscure origin; perhaps an assibilation of an unrecorded *filken, *felgen, retaining the orig. guttural of Middle English felen, hide, conceal, as shown in Icelandic fela, past participle fōlginn, hide, intrust, commend, = Gothic (Moesogothic) filhan, hide, bury: see feal.
  2. from filch, transitive verb
 

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