Meaning

4 senses

  1. Something which has been filched or stolen.

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  2. An act of filching; larceny, theft.

  3. (obsolete)A person who filches; a filcher, a pilferer, a thief.

  4. (obsolete)A hooked stick used to filch objects.

Examples

3 sentences

  1. When I was a kid, I used to filch candy bars all the time.

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  2. Who's filched my pen?

    ruКто у меня ручку стащил?

    deWer hat mir den Stift geklaut?

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  3. Skura filched a few notes from Yanni's wallet.

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Translations

2 languages
Deutsch
By meaning 1
something which has been stolen:

Origin

From Middle English filchen (“to pilfer, steal”). The further origin of the word is uncert

From Middle English filchen (“to pilfer, steal”). The further origin of the word is uncertain, but it is likely from or related to Old English fylċian (“to marshal troops”) and Old English ġefylċe (“band of men, army, host”), which would make it also related to folk.

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Forms

plural: filches
Singularfilch
Pluralfilches

regular

Synonyms

5 synonyms
act of filching:theftB1larceny
person who filches:thiefA2filcherpilferer

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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