noun
Meaning 1
Something which has been filched or stolen.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
filch
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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General-American, Received-Pronunciation: fĭlch
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General-American, Received-Pronunciation: /fɪlt͡ʃ/
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rhymes with -ɪltʃ
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noun
Meaning 2
An act of filching; larceny, theft.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
A person who filches; a filcher, a pilferer, a thief.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 4
A hooked stick used to filch objects.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 5
To illegally take possession of (something, especially items of low value); to pilfer, to steal.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
Examples
- Hey, someone filched my wallet!
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: flog, half-inch, jack, knock off, lift, nick, pilfer, pinch, pocket, rob, steal, thieve, abduct, abstract, appropriate, bag, bandit, bash and grab, bone, boost, burgle, burglarize, borrow, cheat, chore, commandeer, confiscate, convert, cop, cozen, crib, embezzle, filch, fleece, gaffle, gilravage, heave, heist, kidnap, kipe, kyper, liberate, loot, make off with, mill, misappropriate, mooch, moonlight requisition, nip, own, peculate, pickpocket, pillage, pirate, plunder, poach, prig, purloin, raid, ransack, rape, relieve, reave, rip, rip off, run off with, snag, snatch, sniggle, snitch, swindle, swipe, walk off with
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 6
make off with belongings of others
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: pilfer, cabbage, purloin, pinch, abstract, snarf, swipe, hook, sneak, nobble, lift
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: steal
History
Etymology
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.
Across languages
Translations
40 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- German: Diebesgut — something which has been stolen
- Polish: skradziona rzecz — something which has been stolen
- Bulgarian: крада (krada) — to steal
- Bulgarian: задигам (zadigam) — to steal
- Czech: šlohnout — to steal
- Czech: štípnout — to steal
- Czech: otočit — to steal
- Czech: čórnout — to steal
- Dutch: gappen — to steal
- Dutch: pikken — to steal
- Finnish: näpistää — to steal
- Finnish: pihistää — to steal
- French: commettre un larcin — to steal
- Galician: furtar — to steal
- Galician: raspiñar — to steal
- German: stehlen — to steal
- German: stibitzen — to steal
- Hungarian: ellop — to steal
- Hungarian: elemel — to steal
- Hungarian: elsinkófál — to steal
- Hungarian: elcsen — to steal
- Italian: rubacchiare — to steal
- Italian: fregarsi — to steal
- Latvian: nozagt — to steal
- Latvian: nočiept — to steal
- Polish: kraść — to steal
- Polish: ukraść — to steal
- Polish: wędzić — to steal
- Polish: zwędzić — to steal
- Romanian: şterpeli — to steal
- Romanian: fura — to steal
- Romanian: ciordi — to steal
- Russian: украсть (ukrastʹ) — to steal
- Russian: стащить (staščitʹ) — to steal
- Spanish: hurtar — to steal
- Swedish: knycka — to steal
- Swedish: snatta — to steal
- Swedish: sno — to steal
- Turkish: araklamak — to steal
- Turkish: çalmak — to steal