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Thief vs Filcher - What's the difference?

thief | filcher |

As nouns the difference between thief and filcher

is that thief is one who has carried out a theft while filcher is one who filches; a thief.

thief

English

Noun

(thieves)
  • One who has carried out a theft.
  • (obsolete) A waster in the snuff of a candle.
    • (Bishop Hall)

    Hyponyms

    * burglar * cat burglar * mugger * robber * pickpocket

    Related terms

    * thieve * thief in law

    Derived terms

    * *

    Anagrams

    * English nouns with irregular plurals

    filcher

    English

    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)