filch

filch
    v 1: make off with belongings of others [syn: {pilfer},
         {cabbage}, {purloin}, {pinch}, {abstract}, {snarf},
         {swipe}, {hook}, {sneak}, {filch}, {nobble}, {lift}]
    

Filch \Filch\ (f[i^]lch), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Filched}
   (f[i^]lcht); p. pr. & vb. n. {Filching}.] [Cf. AS. feolan to
   stick to, OHG. felhan, felahan, to hide, Icel. fela, Goth.
   filhan to hide, bury, Prov. E. feal to hide slyly, OE.
   felen.]
   To steal or take privily (commonly, that which is of little
   value); to pilfer.
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         Fain would they filch that little food away. --Dryden.
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         But he that filches from me my good name,
         Robs me of that which not enriches him,
         And makes me poor indeed.                --Shak.
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34 Moby Thesaurus words for "filch":
      abstract, and, annex, appropriate, bag, boost, borrow, cop, crib,
      defraud, embezzle, extort, hook, lift, make off with, nip, palm,
      pilfer, pinch, poach, purloin, run away with, rustle, scrounge,
      shoplift, snare, snatch, snitch, steal, swindle, swipe, take,
      thieve, walk off with