Filcher vs Pilcher - What's the difference?
filcher | pilcher |
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
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*:: The very plague and torment of his soul,
*:: 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
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(Webster 1913)
A scabbard, as of a sword.
As nouns the difference between filcher and pilcher
is that filcher is one who filches; a thief while pilcher is or pilcher can be a scabbard, as of a sword.filcher
English
Noun
(en noun)- But to return — Poor Paddy had a wife,
- The harbinger of battle and of strife,
pilcher
English
Etymology 1
Etymology 2
From pilch.Noun
(en noun)- Mercutio: Will you pluck your sword out of his pilcher by the ears?'', ''Romeo and Juliet , Act III, scene 1