Filcher

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    One who filches; a thief.

    "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 ;"

Example

More examples

"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 ;"

Etymology

From filch + -er.

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