Filching

noun, verb

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The act of one who filches; theft. countable, uncountable

    "Truly, the worships of the Mystery wandered as did men, and between filchings and borrowings the gods had as vagabond a time of it as did we."

Verb
  1. 1
    present participle and gerund of filch form-of, gerund, participle, present

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abstractionannexationappropriationconversionconveyanceembezzlement

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"Truly, the worships of the Mystery wandered as did men, and between filchings and borrowings the gods had as vagabond a time of it as did we."

Etymology

From filch + -ing.

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