Filch

Quick meaning: Filch is a verb meaning (transitive) To illegally take possession of (something, especially items of low value); to pilfer, to steal.

Meaning

(transitive) To illegally take possession of (something, especially items of low value); to pilfer, to steal.

More Meanings

1. Something which has been filched or stolen.
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.

Example Sentences

Hey, someone filched my wallet!

But he that filches from me my good name, / Robs me of that, vvhich not inriches him, / And makes me poore indeed.

His very cocksureness is filched from [Charles] Darwin's morality of strength based on the survival of the fittest.

Few traces remain in this district of the great wall [Hadrian's Wall], except the unmistakable masonry blocks filched, and used for the construction of later buildings.

Word Forms

• filches
• filching
• filched

Synonyms for filch

Depending on context, synonyms include larceny, theft, filcher, pilferer, thief, flog.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include pilfer, purloin, nobble, sneak, swipe, lift.

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