klepton.
/ˈklɛptəʊ/ slang.
= kleptomaniac n.
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the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > thief > [noun] > habitual or kleptomaniac
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1958 New Yorker 25 Jan. 29 Some befuddled guest (or klepto, more likely) abstracted a hat.
1962 Punch 4 July 24/1 Playwrights of the imminent Klepto school.
1964 ‘E. V. Cunningham’ Lydia (1965) xii. 178 You got it..right out of Helen Sarbine's purse... What are you—some kind of nut or klepto?
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1976; most recently modified version published online March 2018).
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n.1958see also
- disreputable
- disreputableness
- disreputablenesses
- disreputably
- disreputation
- disrepute
- disreputes
- disresemblance
- disresemble
- disresent
- disrespect
- disrespectabilities
- disrespectability
- disrespectable
- disrespected
- disrespecter
- disrespectful
- disrespectfully
- disrespectfulness
- disrespectfulnesses
- disrespecting
- disrespective
- disrespectively
- disrespects
- disrespondency