filch
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filch
- /fɪlt͡ʃ/ US, UK
Rhymes with -ɪltʃ
Where it comes from
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.
verb filches · filching · filched
noun filches
- Something which has been filched or stolen. 'New Sabbath' is partially a filch from [George Frideric] Handel's beautiful but voluptuous song in Hercules, 'There the brisk sparkling nectar drains.'
- An act of filching; larceny, theft. By the appropriation clause, which is here referred to, it was proposed to apply a part of the property of the Irish Church to secular purposes, that is, to work a transfer of property, with an alteration of its uses. Call this as you will, a spoliation, or wise application, it implies a loss to one
- A person who filches; a filcher, a pilferer, a thief. A ſimple lad, with a whip in one hand, and the other locked in the arm of a young girl, is ſo loſt in gaping aſtoniſhment, that an adroit branch of the family of the Filches is clearing his pockets of their contents.
- A hooked stick used to filch objects. Thus much for their fraternities, names, lodgings, and assemblies, at all which times everyone of them carries a short staff in his hand, which is called a filch, having in the nab, or head, of it, a ferme (that is to say, a hole) into which, upon any piece of service, when he goes a filching, he pu
Translations
Talk about this word "filch." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/filch. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. filch. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/filch "filch." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/filch.Cite this
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title = {filch},
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