Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗noun
Something which has been filched or stolen. · An act of filching; larceny, theft. · A person who filches; a filcher, a pilferer, a thief. · A hooked stick used to filch objects.
verb
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryTo illegally take possession of (something, especially items of low value); to pilfer, to steal.
From Middle English filchen (“to pilfer, steal”). The further origin of the word is uncertain, but it is likely from or related to Old English fylċian (“to marshal troops”) and Old English ġefylċe (“band of men, army, host”), which would make it also related to folk.
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