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Webster 1913 Edition
Filcher
Filch′er
(fĭlch′ẽr)
, Noun.
One who filches; a thief.
Webster 1828 Edition
Filcher
FILCH'ER
,Noun.
Definition 2024
filcher
filcher
English
Noun
filcher (plural filchers)
- One who filches; a thief.
- 1820 August, O'Rourke, Daniel, “An Epic Poem, in Six Cantos”, in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, volume 7, number 41, page 35:
- But to return — Poor Paddy had a wife,
- The very plague and torment of his soul,
- The harbinger of battle and of strife,
- And, what was worse, the filcher of his bowl ;
- But to return — Poor Paddy had a wife,
- 1991, Sean Altman and David Yazbek (music), “Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego?”, performed by Rockapella:
- Well, she sneaks around the world from Kiev to Carolina / She's a sticky-fingered filcher from Berlin down to Belize
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