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单词 filching
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filchingn.

Etymology: formed as filch v. + -ing suffix1.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈfilching.
1. The action of filch v.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > petty theft or pilfering > [noun]
micherya1393
mitchinga1393
picking1402
purloining1417
pilferc1425
pickery1460
pilfering1548
filching1567
lurching1570
pilfery1573
petty larceny1578
filching-tradea1592
prigging1591
filchery1607
nimming1607
sneaking-budge1699
pilferage1732
cabbaging1774
weeding1819
pilferment1823
crib1855
filch1877
souveniring1919
1567 T. Drant tr. Horace Pistles in tr. Horace Arte of Poetrie sig. Eviijv Thy facte not lesse In this thy filchinge meanes.
1597 J. Payne Royall Exchange 35 Avoyde filchinge and robbinge.
2. concrete. That which is filched or stolen.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > stolen goods > [noun] > article of
stealth1426
rifle1657
steal1825
filching1834
cribbing1837
thieving1861
cribbage1862
rabbit1927
1834 E. Bulwer-Lytton Last Days of Pompeii II. iv. ii. 197 By what reserved filchings from marketing..hast thou been enabled to make them serve thee?
1872 ‘G. Eliot’ Middlemarch III. v. xlvi. 64 To pay some call where she distributed her small filchings.

Compounds

attributive and in other combinations, as filching-sack, filching-trade.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > petty theft or pilfering > [noun]
micherya1393
mitchinga1393
picking1402
purloining1417
pilferc1425
pickery1460
pilfering1548
filching1567
lurching1570
pilfery1573
petty larceny1578
filching-tradea1592
prigging1591
filchery1607
nimming1607
sneaking-budge1699
pilferage1732
cabbaging1774
weeding1819
pilferment1823
crib1855
filch1877
souveniring1919
the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > stolen goods > [noun] > receptacle for
filching-sack1837
a1592 R. Greene Sc. Hist. Iames IV (1598) i. sig. C The filching trade when time serues.
1837 B. D. Walsh tr. Aristophanes Knights i. iii, in Comedies 169 I'll flay you for a filching-sack!
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1896; most recently modified version published online December 2019).

filchingadj.

Etymology: formed as filch v. + -ing suffix2.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈfilching.
That filches; pilfering.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > petty theft or pilfering > [adjective]
light-fingered1546
lime-fingered1546
pilfering1546
fine-fingeredc1555
filching1570
mitching1576
lurching1577
lime-twig1602
nimming1603
pitchy1660
fingerative1674
marauding1748
light-handed1769
tarry1822
tarry-fingered1825
sticky-fingered1855
panhandling1884
tarry-fisted1906
1570 B. Googe tr. T. Kirchmeyer Popish Kingdome iv. f. 54 To looke that no disorder be, nor any filching hande.
1592 W. Wyrley Capitall de Buz in True Vse Armorie 151 Ah filching death, thou felonous bloodie thiefe.
1660 R. Allestree Gentlemans Calling 110 This filching Devil, that thus steals from men their precious hours.
1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew Filching-cove, a Man-thief.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1896; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
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