Noun

(en noun)

One who filches; a thief.

* {{quote-magazine

, year = 1820 , month = August , title = An Epic Poem, in Six Cantos , first = Daniel , last = O'Rourke , magazine = Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine , volume = 7 , issue = 41 , page = 35 , pageurl = http://books.google.com/books?id=2_5h48dQ4QcC&pg=PA35&dq=filcher }}

But to return — Poor Paddy had a wife,

*:: The very plague and torment of his soul,

The harbinger of battle and of strife,

*:: And, what was worse, the filcher of his bowl ;

* {{quote-song

, year = 1991 , title = Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego? , artist = Rockapella , composer = Sean Altman and David Yazbek , passage = Well, she sneaks around the world from Kiev to Carolina / She's a sticky-fingered filcher from Berlin down to Belize }} (Webster 1913)